royal.pingdom.com— If you need to transfer more than 1 TB of data, maybe your better choice would be still just send it on disks for over-night delivery.
May 20, 2007View in Crawl 4
Just for the convenience, I find burning a CD or DVD and express posting overnight is easier (and usually more reliable) than transferring over the internet. I do that for anything over as little as 500MB.
Kinda of a pointless statement to make. Of course physical shipment will ALWAYS be faster. Even with internet 2, even with global fibre optic network. etc. By the time we acheive that we will be able to store 500GB on a chip the size of a micro SD card. Just one shoebox full of these will contain thousands of TBs of data. Ship 10 shoeboxes, you've got something like 20 Petabyes. 20 Petabytes of data overnight? No amount if ultra high optical broadband will acheive that for a long time. Phyiscal will always beat internet. It's obvious. Moot point.EDIT: koloss up above makes a similar argument as i.
cwo655321May 20, 2007
and that reply button is what allows a third person make a reply in pure sarcastic form. are we done explaining how digg works?
thinker1999May 21, 2007
What can brown do for you???What about the brown?
aussienickussMay 21, 2007
Just for the convenience, I find burning a CD or DVD and express posting overnight is easier (and usually more reliable) than transferring over the internet. I do that for anything over as little as 500MB.
jenshikMay 21, 2007
I'm pretty sure this made the front page a few weeks ago. Buried as duplicate.
phasmorphageMay 21, 2007
I wonder if there's such thing as FedExTorrentCould save me time on all those "downloads"
niponkittikhounMay 21, 2007
my grandma is faster than the internet.
indorockMay 21, 2007
Kinda of a pointless statement to make. Of course physical shipment will ALWAYS be faster. Even with internet 2, even with global fibre optic network. etc. By the time we acheive that we will be able to store 500GB on a chip the size of a micro SD card. Just one shoebox full of these will contain thousands of TBs of data. Ship 10 shoeboxes, you've got something like 20 Petabyes. 20 Petabytes of data overnight? No amount if ultra high optical broadband will acheive that for a long time. Phyiscal will always beat internet. It's obvious. Moot point.EDIT: koloss up above makes a similar argument as i.
15charmaxwtfMay 21, 2007
They can fit a lot more information down the cables used at the moment too. I guess the bandwidth has more to do with the routers etc