What the hell is "Internet speed"?

[eLiu]

Haha, I asked newegg to send me my password because apparently I forgot it... here's the message you get after submitting the "I'm too dumb to remember my password" request:

The reset password email has now been sent to your email address at Internet speed.

Internet speed? How fast is that? Is it faster or slower if my truck is really big? If a lot of other people need their passwords, will it slow down my personal internets?

lawl.

 

[Phoenix86]

It's a little slower than ludicrous speed...

 

[apac]

Originally posted by: Phoenix86
It's a little slower than ludicrous speed...

We've gone to plaid!

 

[Arkaign]

I manufacture and sell internets!

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: Arkaign
I manufacture and sell internets!

Does it come with the right pipe fittings?

 

[mooncancook]

so what was their email speed before they upgraded to internet speed?

 

[Arkaign]

Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo

Originally posted by: Arkaign
I manufacture and sell internets!

Does it come with the right pipe fittings?

They come with teh universal serial busses! Fits more internets!

 

[eLiu]

Originally posted by: mooncancook
so what was their email speed before they upgraded to internet speed?

USPS speed?

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: eLiu

Originally posted by: mooncancook
so what was their email speed before they upgraded to internet speed?

USPS speed?

That would be s-mail, not e-mail.

 

[NiteWulf]

They're referring to the fact that email is sent and received nearly instantaneously, but it may not show up in your inbox because their mail server is holding it in a queue or your mail server is holding it in queue or there's a software slowdown, or a number of other things

 

[Regs]

Maybe as fast as the network (internet) could manage.

 

[eLiu]

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: eLiu

Originally posted by: mooncancook
so what was their email speed before they upgraded to internet speed?

USPS speed?

That would be s-mail, not e-mail.

Oops, I read the sentence as "...their mail speed...".

*feeling stupid*

NiteWulf: You know, I thought Newegg's statement was just something stupid, but your explanation actually makes a lot of sense.

So if there are a lot of people downloading 10 movies at a time or >whole books<, it could be slowing down the speed of my personal internets... awesome 😀

 

[spidey07]

Not to get geeky but there is delay that can be a combination of many things.

1) speed of light
2) propogation delay from packets getting switched
3) resources on the mail servers load balancers as well as the mail servers themselves
4) geographic location (see number 1 and 2)

So Internet speed is around 10% of the speed of light.

 

[BoomerD]

Internet speed...is that like e-meth or i-meth?

 

[sadffffff]

Originally posted by: NiteWulf
They're referring to the fact that email is sent and received nearly instantaneously, but it may not show up in your inbox because their mail server is holding it in a queue or your mail server is holding it in queue or there's a software slowdown, or a number of other things

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: Arkaign
I manufacture and sell internets!

Yeah but you didn't invent it.😉

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Internet speed is like real life speed. Highly addictive.

 

[Zolty]

It's not a big truck, it's a series of tubes.

 

[George P Burdell]

Originally posted by: Zolty
It's not a big truck, it's a series of tubes.

It's not something that you just dump something on!!!