Kai Krakow <hurikha...@gmail.com> writes: > Am Sun, 14 May 2017 01:28:55 +0100 > schrieb lee <l...@yagibdah.de>: > >> Kai Krakow <hurikha...@gmail.com> writes: >> >> > Am Sat, 29 Apr 2017 22:02:51 -0400 >> > schrieb "Walter Dnes" <waltd...@waltdnes.org>: >> > >> >> Then there's always "sneakernet". To quote Andrew Tanenbaum from >> >> 1981 >> >> >> [...] >> > >> > Hehe, with the improvements in internet connections nowadays, we >> > almost stopped transferring backups via sneakernet. Calculating the >> > transfer speed of the internet connection vs. the speed calculating >> > miles per hour, internet almost always won lately. :-) >> > >> > Most internet connections are faster than even USB sticks these >> > days. >> >> Wow, you must be living in some sort of paradise. Here, internet is >> more like being cut off from the rest of the world. >> >> But then, there's a manufacturer that makes incredibly slow USB sticks >> which I won't buy anymore ... > > Okay, it really depends. I shouldn't say "most"... ;-)
Intenso --- pretty cheap, but awfully slow; however, it does work. Better don't buy anything they make unless your time is entirely worthless to you. > I compared my really crappy (but most reliable yet) old USB stick to my > internet connection. My USB stick doesn't do 48 MByte/s, more like 5-10. > And don't even ask when writing data. 5--10MB/s? How do you get that much? > Even my rusty hard disk (read: not SSD) has a hard time writing away a > big download with constantly high download rate. It must be really old then, about 20 years. > But I guess that a good internet connection should be at least 50 MBit > these days. I'd say 100, but see above. The advantage is that you have sufficient bandwidth to do several things at the same time. I've never seen fast internet. > And most USB sticks are really crappy at writing. That also counts when > you do not transfer the file via network. Of course, most DSL > connections have crappy upload speed, too. Only lately, Telekom offers > 40 MBit upload connections in Germany. They offer 384kbit/s downstream and deliver 365. It's almost symmetrical, yet almost unusable. They also offer 50Mbit and deliver between 2 and 12, and upstream is awfully low. Tell them you could pay for 16 instead of 50 because you don't get even that much, and they will tell you that you would get even less than you do now. That is unacceptable. And try to get a static IP so you could really use your connection ... > I'm currently on a 400/25 MBit link and can saturate the link only with > proper servers like the Steam network which can deliver 48 MByte/s. You must be sitting in a data center and be very lucky to have that. -- "Didn't work" is an error.
