Livecode downloads VERY slow

[J. Landman Gay]

Back in the olden days I had a MacBook with a built-in modem, I think it 
was 1200 baud but maybe it was 14.4. We went up to the north shore of Lake 
Superior every year for a few days and back then it was about as remote as 
it gets. The cabin we stayed in had a ruidmentary phone line that went in 
and out depending on the satelite's mood and how cloudy it was, which was 
most of the time. I brought a 20 foot phone cable with me and stretched it 
from the tiny bedroom at the back, where the only phone outlet was, to the 
"living room" up front across from the wood burning stove, plugged it into 
the MacBook, and logged into AOL which was the only online service that 
hadn't yet folded at the time. A few years after that a coffee shop in the 
little town to the north got an internet connection and I gave up on the 
phone line. We drove 10 miles into town every day or so, bought a coffee 
and I logged in to get my email. (Bong bong screeeech bong bong, "YOU'VE 
GOT MAIL!")

When my nephew was young he asked me why I didn't learn programming in high 
school. I told him there were no personal computers back then. The look on 
his face indicated he was surprised I hadn't yet mummified.


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Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
On December 22, 2021 7:15:55 PM Alex Tweedly via use-livecode 
<use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> OK, memory lane time.
>
> Before we had 1200 baud modems, we used to use acoustic couplers. I
> often used one to call from the main office (England) to our US office,
> at a mind-blowing 300 baud.
>
> Problem was, in those days (1978 I think), even voice transatlantic
> calls were hit or miss. Often you got a undersea cable connection
> (slight delay and echo, but you could have an almost normal
> conversation), other times you got a satellite connection (usually
> little or no echo but very high latency, making conversation frustrating).
>
> The acoustic coupler call would fail if you got the wrong kind of
> connection, so we'd usually wait until the middle for the night to make
> it more likely we'd get a successful call.
>
> Ah fond memories of the days when I could stay up till 3am and still
> function the next day :-)
>
> Alex.
>
> On 23/12/2021 00:41, Martin Koob via use-livecode wrote:
>> I must be in the really ancient fogey range.
>>
>> I remember 1200 baud modems.  In the late ’80s a teacher at our high school 
>> in Wawa, Ontario got his hands on one. It was the size of an air fryer. Our 
>> computer club at the school hooked it up to a Commodore PET 2001 and tried 
>> to connect to Compuserve.  Long waits listening to modem squeals but we 
>> never managed to get connected then.  We were in Wawa which is on the north 
>> shore of Lake Superior so maybe the phone connection was not good enough.
>> Here is the state of the art then, 
>> http://www.technofileonline.com/texts/2400modem88.html 
>> <http://www.technofileonline.com/texts/2400modem88.html>
>>
>> I also remember my Apple GeoPort modem with my Mac Quadra 660AV I think.  
>> https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/GeoPort <https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/GeoPort>
>>
>>  From the above article here are GeoPort speeds.
>> GeoPort Telecom Adapter M1694LL/B - 14.4 kilobaud 
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/baud> (kbps)
>> GeoPort Telecom Adapter (II) M2117LL/A - 28.8 kilobaud 
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/baud> (kbps)
>> GeoPort Telecom Adapter II M5438LL/A - 33.6 kilobaud 
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/baud> (kbps)
>>
>> Martin
>>
>>
>>> On Dec 22, 2021, at 4:02 PM, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode 
>>> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I just downloaded both the Mac and Win32 simultaneously via the download 
>>> page in about a minute. Using “SpeedTest”, I get 110Mb/sec.
>>>
>>> <old fogey> I remember when got our first t1(1.544mb/sec) and thought we 
>>> were styling ridiculous </old fogey>
>>>
>>> Ralph DiMola
>>> IT Director
>>> Evergreen Information Services
>>> rdimola at evergreeninfo.net
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf 
>>> Of William Prothero via use-livecode
>>> Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2021 3:34 PM
>>> To: JJS via use-livecode
>>> Cc: William Prothero
>>> Subject: Livecode downloads VERY slow
>>>
>>> Folks:
>>> When I download an update to Livecode, it takes hours. I’m wondering why. 
>>> Locally, using “SpeedTest”, I get 160Mb/sec internet speeds. Could it be 
>>> the livecode server that serves the updates? Just wondering.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Bill
>>>
>>> William Prothero
>>> waprothero at gmail.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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