Good Old days and Telecoms Download Speed-2012-12
In year 2009 it took nearly 4 hours to download Puppy Linux which was lees than 100 MiB.
It then did not support Linux and routers were not heard.
I downloaded all what I wanted in Singapore in 3 hours which I had to toil for six months here.
I have said this before but I am repeating it again since if you cannot even see a web page or download a picture of a grand kid, the reason is they are not providing the download speed you have paid for.
Come 2012 we had 20/20 promotion in November, 2012 and ever since my download speed has never been above 7 KB/sec.
It took over (20 MiB per an hour) 5 hours to download Puppy Precise which was 166 MiB.
What I do is, I do some work while downloading in the background.
Otherwise it is a wastage and up my Electricity Bill.
When I finish my work I switch off the computer and in actual fact the download was finished in 3 days of intermittent work by me.
The holidays have kept me off the computer but not sweets and chocolates.
Then, I survey my torrent data and find the hours it had taken and the number of days to finish downloading.
The guys and girls using Windows will have no way of knowing the details and the Telecoms takes mean advantage of this lack of surveillance.
Like water and electricity, they have made connections to all and sundry and they have not increased the servers to serve the masses.
What they do is old and regular users are suppressed electronically and digitally to meet the increased demand and reduce the band width of all at peak times.
Unfortunately, some guys in the periphery switch off the server at night and go to sleep giving more stress to Colombo servers.
I only download Linux distributions for testing.
Luckily because of the industrial action I had the liberty to download almost all what I wanted before September.
Knowing the trend and to cut my electricity bill I subscribed for Linux Magazine and they have One DVD with each issue.
I have already got the January issue and it has a double sided environmentally friendly DVD which had both Ubuntru 12.10 and Linux Mint KDE (MAYA)13 which were both pretty good distributions to work with.
If you a Linux oldie, you might be bit irritated with the Ubuntu Unity but I figured out how it works in a few minutes and the every time one opens a software or a utility it opens a workplace for you.
I went up to 7 workplaces and every time one adds a new workplace the panels on the left decrease in size and the workplace also decreases in size.
In my old age I like the new setup since if I open only two or three workplaces they are big enough for my eyesight.
I have never worked with more than 4 workplaces, even though Linux can go up to and above 20.
In is a new experience even though bit annoying for a regular Linux user but for a newbie it is and ideal experiment, come year end and holidays.
I believe it is also touch screen and tablet ready.
Linux magazine was also enjoyable reading and for a change has devoted full articles on Windows 8 and and how to TAME the big Tiger.
