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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Gary Wisdom who wrote (41908)	1/1/1998 3:03:00 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

>>Personally, the reason why I just don't use MSIE exclusively is their mail program. It totally sucks. IMO Netscape Mail is much better.<< Gary - I agree with that, for sure. - Allen

To: Gary Wisdom who wrote (41908)	1/1/1998 3:04:00 PM
From: ben luong	Respond to of 58324

>>Have you noticed how Microsoft has inserted buggy code in their >>browser that crashes Netscape if they're both run at the same time? Yes. It happeded to me. The combination of running both MSIE and Netscape is lethal. It corrupts your window 95 so the next time you boot up, the system is corrupted and you haver to install window 95 again. The Justice Department should investigate this.

To: Gary Wisdom who wrote (41908)	1/1/1998 3:30:00 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

>>BTW, it only took me 2 hours on a 33.6 modem to download MSIE 4.0. I am not a techie and don't understand why it won't download anything at the stated rate. Very frustrating.<< Gary - Do you mean you don't understand why your modem doesn't download at the stated rate? I can explain. The speed rating of your modem is 33.6 KBPS. The KBPS does NOT stand for "kilobytes per second" as many people assume. It stands for "kilobits per second". A byte is eight bits. A kilobit is 1,024 bits. So a kilobyte is 8,192 bits, or 1,024 bytes. (I'm doing this off the top of my head, so someone please correct me if I'm wrong.) File sizes are always given in either kilobytes or megabytes, which makes figuring out how long a download will take confusing. (Those extra 24s and multiples thereof hanging around on all the numbers don't help, either.) It's also important to remember that there is a certain amount of "overhead" involved in any download process, so download speed never equals system throughput speed. Basically, at 33.6 kbps, you should see a download speed, under the very best of conditions, somewhere around 3.5 kilobytes per second. Since IE 4.0 is 12 megabytes, it would take around ... hmmm 12 megabytes X 1024 = 12,228 kilobytes 12,228 kilobytes / 3.5 kilobytes per second = 3,511 seconds 3,511 seconds / 60 = 58 minutes, roughly. So in fact, you should have been able to download that file in around an hour. But remember, everything in between you and the server you're downloading from can affect download throughput. That includes the server itself, which might have other things to do than just shipping packets off to you. It might be simultaneously shipping them to hundreds of people. Then there are the routers on the Internet between you and the server, which also have other people's packets to deal with. Finally, there's the telephone link between you and your ISP. Not to mention your ISP's link to the Internet, which is being shared by a bunch of other people. Was that too detailed and techie? BTW, who's your ISP? - Allen