Blistering Data Transfer

Just a quick little post as I kind of maybe definitely left it a little bit late, but check out the absolutely insane download speed that I have been experiencing with my Windows 2000 machine.

An absolutely hair raising speed of 6.06 KILObytes per second. 

That is literally slower than dial up. 

Also the file did not take 8 minutes to download, it took almost an hour. 

(I'm regretting removing the CD drive now, although it was causing some instability issues.)

I guess this probably an issue with either the network card provided, or the issue of using an iMac G5 as a WiFi... wait sorry, "Airport" to ethernet bridge. Hell I may as well see what the relevant data transfer speed would be over RS232. 

(In fact, if my maths is right, which it probably isn't, a 115200 baud connection would transfer the same 9mb file at over twice the speed as the network, as it would produce a transfer speed of around 14kb/s.) 

Hopefully this will be the last windows 2000 related post for a while, as even I'm getting bored of the monotony of talking about the same machine, and it's only been two days of this entire thing being online.