BeeZer wrote:Would an ISP normally cache FTP traffic though?

I don't think it's normal. Our ISP serves all higher education establishments and I think the theory is that most of the pages/files requested will be fairly repetetive. I don't know about FTP though, that's something for me to test on Monday.

That is fast BeeZer. It takes over 1min 30 secs for me to copy a 700mb file over my 100MBps network. It's possible your workplace or ISP is caching all web activity and someone else previously d/l the file. I work in education and both our ISP and ourselves have large web caches. We tested with Linu...

Those are DOS commands. QBASIC programming language. It's even earlier than DOS. QBASIC was a form of basic which runs on DOS. The first home computers such as the Vic20 and the Spectrum all booted to a rom which ran BASIC. All the first programs on these were written in basic then they started get...

thats alot man Yeah I'm showing my age. Got hooked on computers when the first home computers appeared. A friend showed me his, he typed :- 10 Print "Hello" 20 goto 10 Then he typed 'run' and the screen filled with hello's. I was amazed that 2 simple lines did that. I went and bought my f...

Well....from the begining Some early form of basic (Vic20) Amstrad Locomotive Basic & CPM Dos 3 Dos 3.2 Dos 3.3/Gem GUI Dos 5/Win 3.1 Dos 6/Win3.1 Dos 6.22/Win3.11 Win95 Win95 OSR2 Win98 Win98SE WinME Win2k <- I'm still happy with this in 2004, my pc runs for weeks at a time :D I did try Windows...

Cable 1024/256. Watching my ISP's news pages regarding the new services they have been testing such as 2mbps/2mbps.

Bandwidth Monitor Pro is good. It's very customisable, it can be set to warn when you're approaching your monthly limit. I like the history it retains, you can view how much you've transfered daily/weekly/monthly and even yearly. If you use bittorrent and you're registered at torrentz.com you can ge...