Rise

There’s a new song for you to check out, in all its prettiness.  Amanda recently reminded me about the people still using dial-up, so I wanted to note that this song is only 3.5 MB.  So it shouldn’t be too painful for our dial-up friends to download.  By my calculations...

If you have a standard 56k dial-up connection:

56 kilobits per second
56 / 8 = 7 kilobytes per second
7 / 1000 = 0.007 megabytes per second
3.5 megabytes / 0.007 MB/s = 500 seconds
500 / 60 = 8.3 minutes to download the song.

Or, if you’re rocking an old-school 36k dial-up connection:

36 kilobits per second
36 / 8 = 4.5 kilobytes per second
4.5 / 1000 = 0.0045 megabytes per second
3.5 megabytes / 0.0045 MB/s = 778 seconds
778 / 60 = 13.0 minutes to download the song.

So come on now.  Check it out.