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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 28 2017, @12:18PM
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by Anonymous Coward
on Wednesday June 28 2017, @12:18PM (#532391)
So how do you count a fraction of a second of downloading a web page, and then a quarter hour or more of reading it? I mean, strictly speaking I've been using the network only for a fraction of a second …
On the other hand, I'm obviously using the network all the time while streaming music, although I might do something completely network-unrelated during that time.
Maybe use the time my internet connection is up? But under normal circumstances my router is connected 24/7, so that surely makes me an internet addict. OTOH I may be using an internet-connected computer even if my router is not connected; for example, when using the internet from work.
In short, I'm not sure there's a good way to determine "online time".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 28 2017, @12:18PM (1 child)
So how do you count a fraction of a second of downloading a web page, and then a quarter hour or more of reading it? I mean, strictly speaking I've been using the network only for a fraction of a second …
On the other hand, I'm obviously using the network all the time while streaming music, although I might do something completely network-unrelated during that time.
Maybe use the time my internet connection is up? But under normal circumstances my router is connected 24/7, so that surely makes me an internet addict. OTOH I may be using an internet-connected computer even if my router is not connected; for example, when using the internet from work.
In short, I'm not sure there's a good way to determine "online time".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 08 2017, @06:17PM
Not same AC, but I initally asked by dad for high-speed intertnet: not for the speed: but the "awlays on" aspect.
Downloading GNU/Linux updates overnight was painful.