BSDM - Burdon, Shift, Discharge, & Megabytes
Behold a new form of pain. How in the world is it possible for the local servers to download two files from the same quality source at such different rates?
Now the upload source is known to generate quality digital files. MP4 is a quality format. The download target is the same. The download target ISP is the same. So what in the infernal hades is this !!!!! 444 KB/sec is vastly different than 69.2 KB/sec !!!!
As one who interfaces with computers on a regular basis, can I introduce some in the Hamster cage to a new term? The phrase for the day is "Load Balancing."
Thus ends today's discipline,
S
PS: Historical fact for the less chronologically challenged out there. In the old days, there were these things called "dial-up modems." Some of the fastest of these archaic devices had speeds of 15.6 KB/sec. For the mathematically challenged out there, that makes the second server in the picture above only 4.4 times faster than a Intel 386 computer with a Hayes dial-up modem of the 1990's. Thus ends our second lesson of the day, and a thirty year visit back in the "Twilight Zone."
PSS: xHamster seems to require categories for posts now. Since downloads bind my time and dominate here in a Sadomasochistic manner, I'll categorize this post as "BSDM." :)
Now the upload source is known to generate quality digital files. MP4 is a quality format. The download target is the same. The download target ISP is the same. So what in the infernal hades is this !!!!! 444 KB/sec is vastly different than 69.2 KB/sec !!!!
As one who interfaces with computers on a regular basis, can I introduce some in the Hamster cage to a new term? The phrase for the day is "Load Balancing."
Thus ends today's discipline,
S
PS: Historical fact for the less chronologically challenged out there. In the old days, there were these things called "dial-up modems." Some of the fastest of these archaic devices had speeds of 15.6 KB/sec. For the mathematically challenged out there, that makes the second server in the picture above only 4.4 times faster than a Intel 386 computer with a Hayes dial-up modem of the 1990's. Thus ends our second lesson of the day, and a thirty year visit back in the "Twilight Zone."
PSS: xHamster seems to require categories for posts now. Since downloads bind my time and dominate here in a Sadomasochistic manner, I'll categorize this post as "BSDM." :)
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