Terrible Uploading Times
Aug 30th, 2009 by elle
It’s something I’ve only recently really noticed, but it’s really frustrating none the less.
I’ve got a pretty darn good net connection, to be honest. I have cable broadband, which also gives me access to a VoIP telephone system and IPTV, which is all really fantastic. I love my set up. I’ve got a 300MB download per second. Yes, that’s a really good set up. My fiancé and I play LOTRO so I have to have a good connection, lest we run into all sorts of lag. However, our uploading time is 2MB per second… That means my download speed is 15000% faster than my upload speed. That’s just ridiculous!
Now I know why business always have those SDSL lines, I always thought they were a rip-off. They are really expensive, but if you were working on large files that needed to go online, then I would have to consider it a wise investment. It’s not for me, because the only thing I wanted to upload were videos of my cats, and I wanted to host them on Photobucket, not YouTube, but the uploading times on my net connection meant it would take, ohhhhh a long, long time.
You see, with anyone’s net connection, just because you’ve got a maximum download of 300MBPS doesn’t mean you’re actually going to have that all the time. If you’re computer is doing something else that involves being connected to the net, then already some of that bandwidth is being used for something else. Same with uploading. Those figures are the absolute maximum that you could reach, but most of the time you’re not sitting at your maximum amount.
Anyway, I just wanted to complain about that. I suppose now I’m just going to have to wait and see if I really want to upload those videos – and have them at the scrutiny of the YouTube populace :/ – or if I will forget about the whole thing!
Now for today’s pattern, I am in the mood for something cute, and I’m tired, so I’m going with a Daisy Pillow. I think this is such a versatile pattern, this pillow could have any cute face embroidered onto it, and I love when patterns can be dramatically altered with a simple touch. 