I'm a proud new father (as of a few weeks ago) and this got me wondering...will my new daughter inherit the geek side?!
Will she want to start dismantling the PC as soon as she can reach it and handle the screwdriver?
Will she start evaluating new browsers as soon as they hit the Alpha phase? (Beta's are for wimps ;))
And if so...is it really a bad thing? (Well I guess I'd rather she didn't screw up the PC).
Given the technological era we seem to be living in, I imagine that by the age of 2 she'll understand what a PC is and why we use it. She'll also probably wonder why the PC has a mouse and keyboard when it seems so much easier to touch it (a la iPad/iPhone etc.)
I also imagine she'll have whooped my Angry Birds scores by her third birthday....but she'll never beat me at Fifa on the PS3!
Sunday, 8 May 2011
'Super fast' broadband...what do you do with it?!
I wasn't overly surprised when the BT engineer told me I was the first one on our 'cabinet' to be upgraded to their "Infinity" product (ironic name by the way, but I'll come back to this).
So I'm now on a 37Mb/s download speed (roughly 4.5MB/s) which is around 3 times faster than what I had before...exciting times for a geek like me....but I'm now left wondering what I actually do with all this bandwidth and why I really needed to order it in the first place.
Websites these days load pretty quickly even on a 2Mb/s connection, so on my previous 15Mb/s connection they performed brilliantly, the new connection makes little difference to that.
Download wise, I don't really download that much (mainly applications / updates etc.) but these are not frequent and so I haven't yet seen the benefits.
Sony's PSN has been down for the last few weeks - so I haven't been able to see how well it affects the online gaming side (not that I have that much time to play it anyway).
So what does one actually do with a fast broadband connection? Answers on a post card please.
PS: The "Infinity" product name is ironic because BT can't handle more than a certain number of customers using it per cabinet. In my local cabinet for example, I believe they can have a maximum of 90 people on the new service. There are currently 500+ people using that cabinet for their phone lines. I wonder how they'll sort that one out!
So I'm now on a 37Mb/s download speed (roughly 4.5MB/s) which is around 3 times faster than what I had before...exciting times for a geek like me....but I'm now left wondering what I actually do with all this bandwidth and why I really needed to order it in the first place.
Websites these days load pretty quickly even on a 2Mb/s connection, so on my previous 15Mb/s connection they performed brilliantly, the new connection makes little difference to that.
Download wise, I don't really download that much (mainly applications / updates etc.) but these are not frequent and so I haven't yet seen the benefits.
Sony's PSN has been down for the last few weeks - so I haven't been able to see how well it affects the online gaming side (not that I have that much time to play it anyway).
So what does one actually do with a fast broadband connection? Answers on a post card please.
PS: The "Infinity" product name is ironic because BT can't handle more than a certain number of customers using it per cabinet. In my local cabinet for example, I believe they can have a maximum of 90 people on the new service. There are currently 500+ people using that cabinet for their phone lines. I wonder how they'll sort that one out!
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