Trouble with the Internet

[Vejuz]

So this week I got accepted into Grad school, and yesterday I moved up into my grandfather's house, where I'll be living for the next year.

So I thought this might be issue, but as it turns out the internet at my grandfather's is crap! Good speed but next to no bandwidth. This means patching is taking a long time! (I've also getting an issue where the download just randomly stops sometimes.) At this moment, I'm fully patched up, but there are any patches other than tiny ones, I may be late getting in to make the guild and getting everyone invited. Please give me until mid-afternoon tomorrow to get everything set up.

Good news is, is that I'm getting FIOS installed this Monday, so after this weekend I will have faster internet than I've ever had before. ;D

[pandalishus]

"Speed" = ping and "bandwidth" = mbps? I kinda thought they ("speed" and "bandwidth") were the same.

[Vejuz]

Yeah.

The metaphor I usually favor is tubes, flowing with water. So normally I have nice thick pipes flowing lots of data to me really fast. Now I have a straw that flows with data fast.

The difference is that I can play on this connection (because the tiny packets get there very fast) but I can't DL much on it (because the straw gets clogged up when big files flow through it).

[pandalishus]

OK, thanks for the clarification

[pandalishus]

PS Congrats on grad school! What field?

[Vejuz]

Instructional Technology.

[pandalishus]

Educational field, eh? Very nice. You better not make instructional tech that sucks. I hated instructional tech that sucked.