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

[eerrrr]

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.

[Ant]

How can anything be bigger than the internet?

[Basslisk]

The biggest for me was about 64MB, it took 4 hours and that’s over a cable connection.

[Caddberry]

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

[M0T]

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!

[Jedimark]

I get an average of 7.5 with my 56kbs Modem  

[ficedula]

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.

[M0T]

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.

[Jedimark]

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.

[ffgriever]

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)

[ficedula]

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.

[Caddberry]

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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