Things are different this semester, so I haven’t been using the computers in College of Design as much as I once did. Now that I’ve finally made my return, I can see that absence was a big error. Going from my home computer, where the network performance is erratic at best (it was down when I left), to a computer/connection that allows me to download a file that’s 110,043,136 bytes in 93 seconds (9.5 mbit/sec!) is enough to shock the system.

And yes, it is very geeky for me to write about it. But: wow. Why can’t all Internet be like this?

For those who wonder: it was one of the new BMW films, and they use Akamai for high performance downloads.

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