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Spoiled by bandwidth?
I admit it: I’m spoiled by bandwidth. I’ve seen the other side of the mountain, have lived here for a while, and don’t want to go back. I spent last evening literally wanting to pull my hair out because I’ve become too impatient with the “speed” that most people enjoy from their dialup Internet service. And when I say speed, of course I mean the lack thereof.
In these days of updates and security patches, our computers urge us to reach out and touch someone on the internet constantly — and on average it would seem that the update is normally at least 17 MB, a security patch 4 MB. What that means is that you’ll be sitting at your computer (which might be connected to the internet at 50k/s if you are lucky) for a long, long time. The CD-ROM is becoming undervalued as a way to install software as the Internet and ease of electronic distribution of programs proliferates. For some, that’s a blessing.
No longer are you tied to a CD that might get scratched or misplaced. No longer are you out of luck if you update your operating system to a version that your original drivers cannot enable. For instance, the parallel-port Zip drive at my mother’s house was purchased back when Windows 95 was at the bleeding-edge of technology. Windows 2000 drivers are therefore not on the disk. So it is very good news that I can just head to the Iomega site and pick up the latest version of the W2K drivers (for free) in an 8.3 MB download. Good news if you do it at home on your DSL connection before heading over, that is! (Which I didn’t.)
In the same way that editing pictures, creating movies, and listening to music on a PC helps fuel the fire for faster processors and larger hard drives, the “security” and convenience of downloadable drivers and updates is in-part fueling broadband internet. I am spoiled by it and have found that I can never go back.
written by Kevin in web stuff