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Thursday, September 28, 2006

Broadband is great - but it's still too slow

I've got so used to having broadband that I forget what a big change it is from the Bad Old Days. Reading Gary Marshall's six-word review of the movie Children of Men, I decided to check it out and, without thinking, I clicked the 'large' option for the trailer. Had I been on a 56k modem, I wouldn't have thought, either: I would have clicked the 'small as possible, please' option and then made a cup of tea while it downloaded before returning to watch a load of pixels and blurs in a postage-stamp-sized window.

The trailer still took too long too download, though.

But forget Children of Men. I'm waiting for Clerks II to come out on DVD.

4 Comments:

Would it be arsey of me to go "ooh, look at me, I've got 16 megabit broadband"?

Yes?

Sorry.
I bet it still feels too slow.
It certainly doesn't speed up Bittorrent :)
i switch'd to broadband to get those megabytes, but im dissapointed, its too slow to rock it

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