This post will mean very little to none technical people, or people that just don't care about fancy computer things.

School networks are a wonderful thing. Last year I, along with most freshman, was amazed at the speed of getting songs from kazaa and more so by the intranet(in the dorm). Songs no longer took 20 minutes but 4 minutes on kazaa and 10 seconds or less on the intranet. Seeing 1 megabyte per second downloads was a mind blowing experience.
That was till I came to Germany. The first couple of weeks things were about the same till they decided to update the network equipment. The goal was to keep people from using more then one computer in there room on the network. We're only allowed to download 2 gigabytes a month, and people were using mulitple comps to get more. So the new equipment stoped that, but increased our speed.
Songs are instantaneous downloads now. They finish before you realize they start. Most of the times movies go at 4 Mb/s. The first time I hit 8 Mb/s downloading a movie I was speachless. I downloaded 1/4 of a movie in 30 seconds. Then last night I downloaded a perfectly good quality version of The Last Samurai. It was in three peaces totallying 1.9 GB. I hit 11 Mb/s downloading it, and finished the entire thing in under 4 minutes. It's crazy. To think I can download an entire movie in the time that it used to take to download a mizzly song.
I went out to kazaa today, and was discontent to download at 15 Kb/s when I used to be happy to hit 5 Kb/s at home. I need my external hard drive, and a DVD burner. I'll never see these speeds or concentration of music and songs again, and the movies don't fit on cd's. ARhhhhhhh!