What's the largest download you've ever made?

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0_0 How could you even stomach saying that?!?! that would take me a few months.
 
It would be interesting to do this topic in 10 years time and compare them..... it will probably be somet like.... "oh yeah i downloaded 42 gig the other night"!!!!!
 
Heh heh heh..... I wonder if all we would see will be pages that are 84meg in size or something so it takes equaly long to download them!!!
 
...And in a hundred years:"I Downloaded the Whole internet. But with my slow connenction it took a whole five hours!"
 
well i donw loaded the full version of diablo 2 from a small hacker group in the uk
damm that took awhile on a 28.8 connection
 
I remember ages ago I read a massive article in the Times about a new internet type thing called the Grid or something, its supposed to be much larger than the internet. I havent heard of it since though.
 
The biggest for me was about 64MB, it took 4 hours and that’s over a cable connection.
 
JESUS man Diablo II on a 28.8? the Install of that game is over a gig if you use the full which you would have to.. How big was your hard drive? when i had my 14.4 it was about 2 gigz you musta had your Hard Drive Full as hell after that.. unless you just had a crapppy modem.. um i am not good with math but over a 28.8 probably pulling well get decent here .. actually lets say 6k down that shoulda probably taken you hella.. and we all know you dont get that on a 56k modem.. sometimes you do.. but like rarely.. it musta taken you days.. LoL
 
The theoretical maximum of a 56K modem is 6Kb/s downstream so since 28 is half 56 the maximum should be somewhere around 3Kb/s. That would have taken ages!
 
Since modem speeds are quoted in kilobits not kilobytes, divide by 8 to get byte speed. So 56K = 7KB/sec maximum. Then you never get a perfect connection, so 6KB/sec is the best you can expect.On text/HTML especially, though, protocol compression will up that quite a bit. I often get 8KB/sec on pure HTML files. It won't help you on ZIP's, of course, since they're already compressed.
 
I would like to know how to get an average above the maximum speed of my modem, tell me mark, anythink I can do to get this faster is worth it.
 
Uh.... I haven't done anything to my Modem it just goes at 7.5 as if normal. Hmmm, maybe because it is I live practicaly next to the ISP but I doubt it.
 
You'll probably laugh at me but I downloaded all 4 FF9 CDs on 56K modem at average speed 5.5. That was more than 2.5Gig. I needed about 38 hours per each, but the hell, nights are long. Usually I download 600 - 700 Megs per week - usualy divx videos (still using 56K modem)
 
If it's just compression that's speeding up your modem (and I don't think there's any other way you can get > 7KB/sec on a 56K modem) then it's usually active automatically if your modem/drivers support it. It can be turned on or off from the modem properties control panel, though, so you could check that.
 
I have had mine lie to me.. it once said i connected to this ISP at like 115000 and i wuz like whatever.. i think sometimes thy like to lie to you.. (it always said that on this isp) and believe me it wasnt that speed...
 
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