March 18th, 2007 : Annoyance
Sorry, everyone, but I just need to rant.
So, I’m having some issues with one of my blogs, issues that look like it might require a complete deletion of wordpress and a re-installation. No, biggie, right? Bethany has a 5 MB up 5MB down connection, it’s the weekend, so most of the students are gone or sleeping or doing homework. This should take an hour, tops.
Well, from my room, when connected to the student network, it’s taken three hours, and it’s still not done. That’s right. Three hours.
Bethany, takes the liberty of limiting the bandwidth that people logged into “student” can use. For most web browser, people won’t notice. Downloading large files, people might begin to see something. Trying to upload a 29 kb file? Isn’t going to happen folks!
That’s right. I kept getting timeout errors, while uploading 29 kb files. Think that’s bad? Try uploading a 300byte file and get the same error.
This is rediculous. I finally, gave up. I grabbed my computer and took it to the computer lab. I threw a copy of WordPress on my flash drive and logged into a Lab computer. To upload the 2.2 MB of WordPress files took roughly four minutes. Maybe less, I didn’t time it.
The bandwidth is limited so horribly, it’s almost better for me to do my work at home, where I have 256 Kbps on DSL. However, the internet usually goes down whenever I am doing important web work at home.
So here’s the deal. The world revolves around me. It has too, there’s no other way for this to work. And since the world revolves around me, it decides to stop revolving any time I decide to do web work. This is the only logical explination.
It seems there’s never a good day for web design.
Sorry for the rant. I don’t like to write such incoherent opinions, but sometimes you just need to vent some frustration.