Thanks, Wendell.
The wait times reminds me of the joy of working with a new instrument man who'd fidget with all the nobs and focus ring before finally letting me know where to move the stake! 🙂
Just wanted to apologize yet again for the slowness of the server. Moving to a new server was a good choice, but now we are having trouble with the licensing of the "world-class" caching system and the developers are working on fixing that. This is why the server is still so slow, because NOTHING is currently being cached; literally everything is being reloaded every time you view a page. :-/
Fun fact: Despite being the slowest it's ever been, this website is currently so busy the last couple of months that it looks like we'll break the 100K unique visitors (in a 30 day period) mark later this month. Go figure.
This is why the server is still so slow, because NOTHING is currently being cached; literally everything is being reloaded every time you view a page. :-/
Now that seems like something the developers might have wanted to have lined up. LOL.
Still worth the wait times to read the content though! And it sure beats the heck out of the old 14.4 modems.
14.4 modems.
I started out on a 2400 bps modem. I recall other people earlier using 300 bps phone couplers.
Just wanted to apologize yet again for the slowness of the server. Moving to a new server was a good choice, but now we are having trouble with the licensing of the "world-class" caching system and the developers are working on fixing that. This is why the server is still so slow, because NOTHING is currently being cached; literally everything is being reloaded every time you view a page. :-/
whoa.
@bill93 4800 is the farthest back I can recall actually using. The 14.4 was a "high speed" upgrade, costing around an additional $300- $600, when I was finishing college. It seems that within just a few years it jumped through 28.8, 56.6 and then cable.
Early 90s fast - 14.4 kbs
versus
Now (advertised speeds) fast - 1,500,000 kbs
Just looked up an online calculator. Some aerial photos I have downloaded are on average around 100MB.
Back in the 14.4 time period, that file would take about 15 hours to download (if you even tried to download it - of course probably using some form of file downloader that would allow you to pick up on the file after the inevitable dropped dial-up).
Now, I can get it within 10 to 20 seconds at my office. And if I were in an area with the highest speeds available, the time probably wouldn't even register in seconds.
@jon-payne Reminds me that Gordon Moore had recently passed. Not sure how interesting that is.
Reading Wendell's efforts is a good reminder to hit the donate button again!
Licensed Land Surveyor
Finger Lakes Region, Upstate New York
