odd behavior

[Chris Adams]

>On Sun, 30 Jan 2000 16:39:03 -0800, Chris Adams wrote:
>
>> >On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 06:15:14PM +0100, Alexander Sarras wrote:
>> >> Reminds me of that old questions: What's the fastest way to get 10GB of
>> >> Daten from L.A. to Atlanta? - UPS!
>> >
>> >    Depends.  What's the speed of the individuals on either side?  If you 
>have
>> >25k of bandwidth (medium priced cable connection these days) and a decent 
>FTP
>> >client (lftp, leechftp, etc) the fastest way is actuall to start an FTP.  
At
>> >25k you can get 10Gb in just under 1 night.  :)
>> 
>> It's an old joke, along with "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station
-
>> wagon full of magtape". These days it'd be more like 10TB.
>> 
>And it'll be CDs now. And it's still valid.

Well, I was thinking more along the lines of DVDs or those holographic things 
that Israeli company is working on (150GB/per, 1GB/s read rate. Mmmmm)