Day Three of Optimum Online Ultra. We discussed it at some length during yesterday’s podcast, which, need I remind you, ended in an explosion. You never know what’s gonna happen here at CrunchGear! Anyway, today I present a cruddy video showing how long it takes to download a Linux ISO—Ubuntu, from this mirror—because it seems like the cool thing to do.
Now, I can’t vouch for the quality of YouTube, but I can assure you that the download hovered right around 9MB/s for the duration. Now, that’s a 700MB file, and it took as long as it took.
The bottom line here is, yes, Optimum Online Ultra is fast.
Any other requests?
Is this torture Crunchgear reader week? Cablevision Ultra is available to me and I cannot afford it but I am stuck reading these posts everyday!
Damn you Nicholas!
HAHAHA
I remember being stoked when I could download a napster song in under 5 minutes!
I wish I had that speed here in Brazil, the fastest we can get for download here is 3MB/s, and it is extremely expensive :(
What WAS that explosion, anyway?
A barn burned down in the neighborhood. It was pretty intense.
http://poughkeepsiejournal.com/article/20090520/NEWS01/90520024
Nicholas, did you get any photos up on Getty Images?
Nope. I wasn’t close enough to get any good shots. This is all I came up with:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicholasadeleon/sets/72157618546089342/