Comments on: It’s 2008, Can We Put File Transfer Down For A Nap And Use Links Pls?

By: Andy's Mom

Andy's Mom — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 01:17:20 +0000

I thought you LOVED getting my pictures, honey?

By: dan

dan — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 06:11:19 +0000

meh… P2P file transfers are still very relevant today and should be even LESS of an issue with the ubiquity of broadband internet access these days. Especially when someone is merely trying to send you one picture! You would probably use as much or more bandwidth navigating to a site like flikr and viewing the photo there.

For albums of photos, larger files or things you wanna show off often, sure, upload them. For one off, spur of the moment situations like your scneario above… why bother to complain at all??

By: junkyard

junkyard — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:40:00 +0000

Do you nerds like work for Flickr or what? Fags.

By: misanthropy

misanthropy — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:35:03 +0000

downloading a picture doesn’t require a fast computer…It’s just a hassle, especially if the files are huge.

Why would anyone want your picture on their HD? Im looking for an important file and i see the dick you shooped into John Mccains hand and something clever in Impact font, yeah, that won’t make me so pissed I go and burn down an orphanage or anything…

Junkyard and Tom are wrong. If you agree please hurl insults their way.

By: Joe Bob Briggs

Joe Bob Briggs — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:28:57 +0000

Well, say you’re picture is 1mb and you have 10 friends you want to send it to. That means 1mb times 10 = 10mb of bandwidth upload you’re going to have to eat up. However, if you upload to an image hosting type site like flickr, then you upload once and simply paste the link to your friend and they can eat up the download bandwidth. Generally DSL is asynchronous which means you can download at a much faster rate than uploading. So not only are you slowing down the servers by uploading, but you’re also wasting peoples time by waiting. This is also assuming that your friends receive the image the first time, but since packets can fail you will most likely have to send the image over two or more times for at least one friend out of 10.