Hard Drive Woes

[--Pete]

Hi,

Kinda funny that since I picked up my new 300gig drive about 2 weeks ago, I've downloaded over 13 gigs, and I haven't seen anything like that (yet...). Some 2 gigs of that was the first day and a half. I have heard that Comcast does cause problems when you do this kind of thing, so I'm slowing the downloads a bit for now.

Comcast has a limit on downloads from Usenet newsgroups of (in my area) 2GB per month. Plenty for discussion groups, but not enough for digital image groups. AFAIK, there is no limit (yet) on non-Usenet traffic.

I'm kinda glad for the limit, since I live in an area where a lot of people are sharing the cable bandwidth. I could log onto five or six wireless networks from my condo at almost any time -- people are totally clueless about security. And I'm tempted to send a joke print job to some of the WiFi printers that I have access to:) But, on the bandwidth limitation, there seemed to be a few people that felt it was their duty to download all of the posts to all of the newsgroups. That's gotten somewhat better. I still only get about 800 kbps of the 2, 4, 8 Mbps that Comcast advertises. I suspect that a lot of P2P file sharing is going on, lot's of school age kids in this complex.

I guess bandwidth is like money and youth. You never can have too much;)

--Pete

EDIT: Wish I did get 800 Mbps;)