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bandwidth madness?

We're The Great Old Ones Now

16:28 / 22.10.01

Is it my imagination, or is there a fad for massive, bandwidth-eating random picture topics in the Conversation at the moment? What's with that?

Rialto

16:45 / 22.10.01

There's a serious point to the 'Us' and 'Them' threads.

Ethan Hawke

16:47 / 22.10.01

Those pics don't eat up Barbelith bandwidth, do they? don't they live on different servers and eat up the bandwidth of those sites?

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

17:05 / 22.10.01

correct, the way they are linked SHOULD put most of the bandwidth on the original hosts, who will be wondering why they are getting so many hits from here...

We're The Great Old Ones Now

17:51 / 23.10.01

quote:Originally posted by Evil Vampire Time Please:
There's a serious point to the 'Us' and 'Them' threads.I wouldn't know. They take so long to download that I tend to give up after a few minutes and do something else.

Jack Fear

17:57 / 23.10.01

Ahhh.

The true cause of your grousing is revealed:

Connection envy.

Y'all need some fatter pipes, boy. Hmmmm... DSL's [not widely available/prohibitively expensive] in the UK, ennit? What about cable modem?

Ierne

18:28 / 23.10.01

Jack's right.
Here at work we've got DSL

, but on the <<<rare>>> occasions that I can get online at home, it's via my landlady's dial-up and...

Regrettable Juvenilia

09:52 / 24.10.01

Or you could just open another window and come back to the first one when they've downloaded. I *think* I'm also right in saying that once your computer has been there once, the pictures you've seen before download much more quickly, if that makes any sense.

[ 24-10-2001: Message edited by: Flyboy ]

YNH

09:52 / 24.10.01

Only if you're clicking the back button. Jack, you know y'all for the singular is improper usage.

Jack Fear

09:52 / 24.10.01

No... Nick in his totality, in all his aspects and all his multifarious glory, needs the fat pipe. In all its multifarious et cetera.

I stand by my statement.

Saveloy

10:22 / 24.10.01

Are we all absolutely certain about the pictures not eating up bandwidth etc? Having posted a ton of the things I'd hate to think I was causing badness.

ONLY NICE THINGS

10:30 / 24.10.01

Can I be permitted to point out that, if we do indeed "need the fat pipe", then Whiskey is going to insist on watching us get it...

Then giggle childishly.

Ahem.

Sorry.

[ 24-10-2001: Message edited by: The Lower Haus ]

Tom Coates

15:29 / 24.10.01

They don't eat up bandwidth. All of the conversation ABOUT them eating up bandwidth DOES eat up bandwidth.

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