Internet Cafe
Sep. 26th, 2005 07:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lyssacI have discovered a new love. There is an internet cafe in town near the college. I can take my laptop up there and plug it in to the internet, and it doesn't cost anything!!!
And to give you an idea of the difference: I recently discovered bittorrent and thought I would give it a trial run. What would take 330+ days to download from home (apr. 8G) is running about 8-15 days here (still a lot, but about 1/40th of the time). A program that I need that would have taken 2 days at home, was finished in ~40 minutes.
I am so loving this. I will likely be spending some time here, in the near future - especially since my 26.4-28.8 connection at home is positively prehistoric.
I can even plug in the power cord, since I don't have a working battery... so cool. I think tomorrow I will work on my websites and stack up downloads in Getright and then come back Wednesday and upload/download it all.
And to give you an idea of the difference: I recently discovered bittorrent and thought I would give it a trial run. What would take 330+ days to download from home (apr. 8G) is running about 8-15 days here (still a lot, but about 1/40th of the time). A program that I need that would have taken 2 days at home, was finished in ~40 minutes.
I am so loving this. I will likely be spending some time here, in the near future - especially since my 26.4-28.8 connection at home is positively prehistoric.
I can even plug in the power cord, since I don't have a working battery... so cool. I think tomorrow I will work on my websites and stack up downloads in Getright and then come back Wednesday and upload/download it all.
