1.6 GB, just because.

30 Aug 2004

According to my system information page on my local machine, I’ve downloaded 1.62 GBvia my local ethernet interface in the last 11 hours and 21 minutes (not downloading flat out, that just happened to be my system uptime when I last refreshed the page).

What was I doing? No LAN traffic, that much I know. There has been one other machine on for much of today which has created noise before, but post- viral and spyware purges, this ’98 box has been squeaky clean (except for the one virus which powers it, of course).

Nah, I was downloading a couple of ISO’s from PlanetMirror, namely Mandrake 10 discs 1 and 2 — I don’t even know if I’m going to burn the images to CD, much less actually USE them on anything, but hey… that’s not what this is all about.

Some will recall a post I made previously (on the olde blog) regarding iiNet’s wonderfully bloated new quota limits for their ADSL plans… yeah… I’m still going on about that, sorry to appear pedantic… I am.

Anyway. Those two ISO images put a nice chunk in my monthly allowance, because it was starting to slip behind. You know that when the download meter starts telling you you can download 650, 700MB in a day, something has to happen… I’m just keeping up with my iiSP’s lofty expectations of their users!

“What would anyone download 12GB a month of?!” — the standing joke goes, “That’s a lot of Linux ISO’s”… it sure is.