Oh, hello there! It seems I shelved this entire website and YouTube while studying for university. Was it all for nothing? My GPA of 6.5 says it was worth it. Can I keep it up? Probably not!

Now I’ve complained about the lack of internet speed here on a few occasions. We were supposed to get true high speed internet over a year ago. It’s since been delayed indefinitely thanks to politics. I hate politics so much.

Anyway, while waiting for a lab at uni, I tried splicing together the above video on an iPad and happened upon my university wifi. The video uploaded in less than a minute. A short speed test later and… 229Mbps down, 452Mbps up. That’s a theoretical 56.5 megabytes per second uplink, before overhead, rather than a measurement of the video’s sustained upload speed.

To put things into perspective, my home internet connection could manage a massive 80 kilobytes a second. Comparing those figures gives roughly 700 times the rate. I couldn’t believe that a 2GB upload could finish in under a minute instead of taking hours. Suddenly the footage backlog felt a lot less impossible!

So the future is looking bright, maybe I will end up getting the 250-odd gigabytes of footage uploaded yet! Stay tuned! :-)

Update: Looks like this was the only post for 2017! Happy 2017 everyone! :)