What Is The Biggest File You Have Ever Downloaded?

Dude111

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The biggest file I ever downloaded (So far) was a Windows Media Player video about 9/11 if I remember right..... It was over 900 Megs and I was wondering if my ISP would be mad I was using that much of thier bandwidth!! (But I dont use that much HARDILY EVER so I figured they wouldnt mind)
 

Crono

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Probably Star Citizen. Been a while since I fired it up or downloaded it, but I think around 30GB.

There are bigger games, but the final version may be one of the biggest downloads.
 
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ultimatebob

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Jul 1, 2001
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Probably a CentOS Linux DVD .ISO installer file. Those run about 4 GB on average.

Steam or my XBox One have probably downloaded much larger game installs than that, but that process is hidden behind the scenes and I have no idea how big the files it's downloading actually are.

The biggest upload I ever did was my entire photo collection to my Onedrive account. That was about 25 GB, and it took about 2 days to complete. Damn you Comcast, and your insanely slow unload speeds!
 

shortylickens

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Jul 15, 2003
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Biggest single file was probably close to 14gb. A high quality bluray rip of a 3 hour porn compilation.


Torrent, of course.
 

cbrunny

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And fwiw, you should never feel bad about using your internet connection. Any ISP that charges for bandwidth will never get my money.
 

brianmanahan

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Sep 2, 2006
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Code:
wget -r http://forums.anandtech.com

just kidding :D i think it was the latest assassins creed at like 40 gb
 

bbhaag

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Jul 2, 2011
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It was a torrent of almost every DOS game ever released call Win3xO. It was right around 320gb.
 

sdifox

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The biggest file I ever downloaded (So far) was a Windows Media Player video about 9/11 if I remember right..... It was over 900 Megs and I was wondering if my ISP would be mad I was using that much of thier bandwidth!! (But I dont use that much HARDILY EVER so I figured they wouldnt mind)

The 90s called and they want their modem back.
 

Strk

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Nov 23, 2003
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My guess is it was something through Steam, but not sure if that is a single file or not. My guess is the latter though.
 

1sikbITCH

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Jan 3, 2001
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I'm still working on it.


YH1xBez.gif
 

clamum

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Feb 13, 2003
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As a group of files, probably a few tens of gigs. Literally a single file, jeez, no idea. Probably 10-20 gigs or so.
 

yh125d

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Dec 23, 2006
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40gb, blu-ray of The Return of the King extended edition in a single MKV
 

Art&Science

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I copied an 8TB database to my workstation yesterday... the problem is, it was supposed to be 12TB.
 

mnewsham

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Oct 2, 2010
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I've had some Bluray remux's be over 70GB, but they are generally split around 34GB into two or more parts so not a single file.

Not talking single file and easily several hundred GBs. I know of at least 3 things I have downloaded in the past 2 months that were 150Gb+
 
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lxskllr

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English Wikipedia I think. If I remember right, it was ~8GB compressed.