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Offline idolminds

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These high speed downloads are making me impatient
« on: Thursday, September 13, 2007, 04:23:54 PM »
How does this happen? I live on freaking dialup, I wait constantly for even the little things. But I'm sitting in this hotel room downloading my ass off (4GB so far), and I'm getting impatient with some downloads. "100MB will take 8 minutes? God damn...find a faster mirror!"...that shit would take me all night at home.

I even stopped a download of the QW:ET demo because it was going to take 5 hours. I found a mirror and will get it in an hour. At home that would have taken at least a week. I should be thrilled with even 5 hours.

But then i realize that 5 hours is "slow" when I've got a limited amount of time to get all the big stuff I want. Now it takes an hour and I have 4 more hours to download things. So it makes sense like that.

Still...I'm getting spoiled.
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Offline PyroMenace

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Re: These high speed downloads are making me impatient
« Reply #1 on: Thursday, September 13, 2007, 04:44:07 PM »
Your probably impatient about it because you have a limited amount of time at the hotel and your trying to grab as much shit as you can before you have to leave.
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Offline ScaryTooth

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Re: These high speed downloads are making me impatient
« Reply #2 on: Thursday, September 13, 2007, 04:57:41 PM »
I read that as Impotent...
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Offline WindAndConfusion

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Re: These high speed downloads are making me impatient
« Reply #3 on: Thursday, September 13, 2007, 05:12:25 PM »
Quote from: idolminds on Thursday, September 13, 2007, 04:23:54 PM
How does this happen? I live on freaking dialup[...]
Is that really living?
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Offline Ghandi

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Re: These high speed downloads are making me impatient
« Reply #4 on: Thursday, September 13, 2007, 05:58:59 PM »
Quote from: ScaryTooth on Thursday, September 13, 2007, 04:57:41 PM
I read that as Impotent...

Me too...

My first thought was too much porn.

My second thought was joy that there would be no little Idols running around anytime soon.

...:-[
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Offline TheOtherBelmont

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Re: These high speed downloads are making me impatient
« Reply #5 on: Thursday, September 13, 2007, 06:39:12 PM »
So this probably isn't a good thread to mention that I get my 12 mbps connection for free since I work for the cable company, right?
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Offline Pugnate

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Re: These high speed downloads are making me impatient
« Reply #6 on: Friday, September 14, 2007, 04:14:16 AM »
Idol needs to move to the city.
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Re: These high speed downloads are making me impatient
« Reply #7 on: Friday, September 14, 2007, 04:15:38 AM »
Quote from: Ghandi on Thursday, September 13, 2007, 05:58:59 PM
Me too...

My first thought was too much porn.

My second thought was joy that there would be no little Idols running around anytime soon.

...:-[

Why would watching porn making you read that as impotent? :D
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Offline Ghandi

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Re: These high speed downloads are making me impatient
« Reply #8 on: Friday, September 14, 2007, 10:06:23 AM »
Overuse?  :P
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Offline scottws

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Re: These high speed downloads are making me impatient
« Reply #9 on: Saturday, September 15, 2007, 09:49:57 AM »
My DSL got upgraded to 300 kB/s down, so I'm pretty happy about that.  I think I get 100 - 150 kB/s up.
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Re: These high speed downloads are making me impatient
« Reply #10 on: Sunday, September 16, 2007, 04:09:30 AM »
Idol, be careful that the hotel doesn't bill you on bandwidth! Some hotels here in Dubai have policies like you get 2 gigs and it's $10 for every extra gig or something. Check with the reception just to be sure.
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Offline idolminds

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Re: These high speed downloads are making me impatient
« Reply #11 on: Sunday, September 16, 2007, 07:34:36 AM »
Guess this hotel didnt have anything like that. Dad didnt complain about the bill when we checked out.
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Re: These high speed downloads are making me impatient
« Reply #12 on: Sunday, September 16, 2007, 10:21:31 AM »
Quote from: idolminds on Sunday, September 16, 2007, 07:34:36 AM
Guess this hotel didnt have anything like that. Dad didnt complain about the bill when we checked out.
Sweet ;D

Well Dubai is the biggest rip-off city in the world at the moment. Right now an average single bedroom apartment costs about $2500 monthly.
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