4 ms·
If it's any indication on the informedness of the article: In reality, an MMS is about one million times more data than a text message. The payload of an SM
by elektronaut 15y ago
If it's any indication on the informedness of the article:
In reality, an MMS is about one million times more data than a text message.
The payload of an SMS is 140 bytes. The MMS specification does not specify a limit, but providers often cap it at 300kb. Which, of course, is about 2000 times more.
Now, if an MMS had about a million times more data than a text message, that would make each message about 140 megabytes.
- sorbus 15y agoThe article seems to have updated. It now reads "In reality, an MMS or email is anywhere from a thousand to a hundred thousand times more data than an SMS." Given that the previous paragraph says that it's an "email containing photo(s) and/or video(s)", that seems perfectly reasonable (it puts the range between ~140 KB and ~14 MB).
- vacri 15y agoSending emails with 14MB attachments will make your sysadmin hunt you down with a pitchfork.
- nitrogen 15y agoIf that's the case, your sysadmin either needs to stop living in the past, or provide something more convenient than e-mail. Storage and LAN bandwidth are ridiculously cheap.
- bdunbar 15y agoStorage and LAN bandwidth are ridiculously cheap. This is true right up until you present a req for more disk drives for one's network attached storage.
- deleted 15y ago[deleted]
- bxc 15y agoIf we're making inappropriate price comparisons, that 14mb is half a cent of hard-drive space. A whole 3 characters worth of SMS!
- vacri 15y agoStop living in the past? Sure. The Cloud is the new fad, everyone's talking about it. We have our company email managed in the cloud. LAN bandwidth and local storage has nothing to do with the bottlenecks in this system.