I'm used to downloading things at work at about 150 kilobytes per second (KBps) and at home at around 600 KBps. Most normal website will give me these sorts of speeds (at least 150KBps).

Due to work considerations, I'm now having to download and install iTunes. The wonder of Apple servers is giving me all of it's measly 21.3 MB at about 18 KBps. So, I figured I had plenty of time to rant about it. It says there are 15 minutes left right now. I downloaded the full Ubuntu CDs the other week in about 15 minutes at home (about 600megs at 615KBps). Why on earth is it so slow?! It's dropped now to 16 KBps. Blah.

If this is the sort of performance I can expect with download music, what's the point? It'd be quicker to walk to Borders. Oh, actually, I have zero intention of downloading any music with it. It's supposed to play some file I have. Given QuickTime doesn't, I'm skeptical, but we'll see. But if I was going to be impressed into using it, this is most definitely not the way to do it.

Or maybe they only give fast bandwidth to Mac clients? That'd be great. A Mac downloading at 10x the speed on the same network. But really... why would a Mac need to? Isn't it preloaded?

Well, 7 minutes remaining and it's back up to 18 KBps. I can't ramble on for that long, so I'll have to go do something else.

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Posted by Shane on May 3, 2005 2:58 PM | Permalink