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Showing posts with label Internet. Show all posts

Thursday, December 06, 2007

Can't Broadcast Myself

Few months ago, my friend said that there's a way to make blog instead of 'type' it. He said v-blog or video Blog. I found that YouTube could make it but unfortunately I have a connection problem which it can't watch very fast just like we watch some television.
In my hometown (Yogyakarta), I use one provider (with cabble connection) who have a personal connection program that each of customer can access the internet with 5-7KBps each. I must pay IDR 385,000/month. Luckyly, this program included th cabble TV and unlimited access. Well, I taught that it's the best way if I compared with my activities which stay in front of my PC or notebook hourly.

If I want to download 1 episode TV Series, I have to downloaded it for about 9 hours and I usually downloaded it at night when I go to sleep. The same way if I want to watch YouTube. Sometimes I have to wait for 15-20 minutes just to watch 2 or 3 minutes video upload. If I opened someone's BLOG which contains of YouTube's Video, I closed it suddenly because it made slow my connections. I can't upload any file with fast connection because its uplink very sucks. So I've never upload it to any sites except IIX sites. I've never like to upload video on YouTube because sometimes in the middle of proccess, it always broken.

Others people likes to upload their video because they can broadcast theirselfs but not for me because I can't broadcast myself.

Saturday, September 22, 2007

Download from XCODE 2.4.1 from Apple's site

A few weeks ago, I downloaded XCODE 2.4.1 from Apple's site. There were some problems when I downloaded that applications. I live in Indonesia and some of the town have low-speed Internet connection. If we want to have high-speed connection, we have to pay a lot. Eventhough I use a cable modem, I just can access with 6KBps in the morning until afternoon and I can access with 10-12KBps at night 'til 7 AM in the next morning. Well I can said that you have to be patient if you want to download some applications from any sites.

When I downloaded XCODE from Apple's site, I found that it couldn't be resume after I pause. And it could stopped itself if the connection (my connection) was too low to download it. I have to download so many times and it always stopped when the connection low. I was very desperated. All I just wanted to have is a high-speed Internet connection. And then suddenly, I remembered that I've a friend who lived, studied, and worked in Canada (Calgary). I asked his kindness to downloaded it which had almost 1GB file size. Then once again, I asked his kindness to re-upload in one of the most popular file sharing's site (because I have its account and so did he).

Fortunately, he's very good friend and he said that he needed 1 or two days to donwload and re-upload it. For me, it easier to download XCODE from that file sharing's site than download from Apple's site. When I asked my friend how long it took to download the XCODW from Canada, he said that just 10-15minutes. Wew really fast ..

I just dont understand. Why Apple's Site don't make some mirror sites to download the applications (such as sourceforge.net) ?