New speed record

[mithrandir2001]

I just downloaded the full .NET Beta 2 SDK off of Microsoft's file distributor, Conxion, and reached a new breakthrough in speed: the 123MB file downloaded in 4 min 43 sec, good for 448KB/sec...3.6 Mbps, baby! None of this 640K crappola, just some real broadband. All of those AT&T@Home customers left the network and the rest of us are rewarded to insane speeds.

 

[Tominator]

..And we do not like you anymore...:disgust:

 

[nirgis]

do you want a cookie?

 

[darthmango]

Thats nothing. i consistantly get 900+ from microsoft.

 

[Looney]

Yeah, that's pretty regular speed for me from MS actually. i'm on rogers@home.

 

[Nightfall]

Too bad @home is going under in Febuary.

 

[CStroman]

I've had up to 7 mb/s here. That was months ago.

 

[toant103]

with download accelerator, i'm getting like 700 KB/s

i'm on a T-1 though

 

[N8Magic]

You mean from MSDN? I've been over 1.1MB/sec here at work.

 

[Pr0Hawk]

I love the new ATTBI network....I get blazing fast 50 kb/sec downloads!

 

[stev0]

I get about .5 meg/sec here... sad and I pay 50 bucks a month from cableone.net

 

[ShadowFox]

Around here in colorado, speeds on attbi are dismal, not really worth the $45 a month

 

[mithrandir2001]

Ah, party-poopers. Conxion was never that fast before, usually topping off at 250kb/sec, at home or work.

 

[Lars]

<< Around here in colorado, speeds on attbi are dismal, not really worth the $45 a month >>



In Colorado Springs everything works great (Adelphia Powerlink)
and I only pay $83 a month (Internet, Basic Cable, Digital Cable, HBO, Showtime, Starz, Cinemax)

 

[BigLance]

<< do you want a cookie? >>



LMFAO..

 

Have you ever touched real broadband?

 

[yakko]

When cable first came to Tampa I saw a friend download a 15 mb in about 20 seconds.

 

[tgillitzr]

<< with download accelerator, i'm getting like 700 KB/s

i'm on a T-1 though >>



right.....

T1 = 1.544Mbps

1.544Mbps / 8 bits/byte = 193KBps

unless download accelerator is amazing, your lying

 

[hellfreeze]

<< do you want a cookie? >>



LOL!!

 

[AkumaBao]

Hmmmm..... You get about 60K more than my cable. What's so big about that? Now if you're talking about at a time like 12:15pm, then I think you would have bragging rights.

Oops. I'm sorry. At this time your getting about 100K more. Hmmmm... Must be working on our server.

 

[mithrandir2001]

Well, jealous dial-up users aside...I've had my cable connection for almost 2 years and it never could break 345KB/sec, as if there was some physical/hardware limitation. So getting 448KB/sec told me that the line is capable of more but for some reason wasn't completely tapped. And I made the download around 7:30PM, so there should have been some prime-time traffic on the shared cable line to potentially reign in transfer rates.

I also downloaded MDAC 2.7 afterwards and was treated to a 625KB/sec transfer, but that file is only a few megs, so you can't regard that as a true, stable speed. Downloading a 123MB file will provide a much better indicator of average speed.

I like chocolate cookies, BTW, so send them my way. I have enough IE cookies, though.

 

[rippy]

<< Have you ever touched real broadband? >>


yes, once... it felt soo good... I.... I.... want to do it.... again *drool*

 

[SinNisTeR]

im on a OC-256 line... and MAN does MS send slow...

 

[hellfreeze]

<< im on a OC-256 line... and MAN does MS send slow... >>



can i borrow it fro a while?

 

[Smbu]

I usually get around the 0.9-1.0MB/s range from MS. Sometimes a little higher.