What Is The Biggest File You Have Ever Downloaded?

[Stopsignhank]

Yesterday. The 2.9 Gig surveillance video of the guy committing workers comp fraud against my company.

 

[KMFJD]

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

Never thought of that before, downloading now, thanks!

/12.6gb now

 

[Imp]

Call of Duty: Ghosts install files... Like 35 GB for singleplayer, another 30 for multiplayer.

 

[zCypher]

lol @ being worried if ISP would "mind" about the download

 

[SketchMaster]

A picture of your mom.

/teenage Internet troll.

Honestly? I think most games are my biggest bandwidth hogs. Most of them weigh in at +10Gb easy.

 

[shortylickens]

I would think it comes packaged in one file that is compressed and then extracts all the files.

Nope. Not on Steam. They do have compressed files, but still individual files and they sometimes number in the hundreds or thousands. And if its 60 gigs on disk, it was probably 30-40 gigs of downloads.
Guild Wars 1 was actually pretty simple with the base game. An executable, and a single massive data file. That was all, nothing more.

For reference, Elder Scrolls Online is 82 gigs on disk. Which is the biggest one I own.

 

[KMFJD]

Nope. Not on Steam. They do have compressed files, but still individual files and they sometimes number in the hundreds or thousands. And if its 60 gigs on disk, it was probably 30-40 gigs of downloads.
Guild Wars 1 was actually pretty simple with the base game. An executable, and a single massive data file. That was all, nothing more.

For reference, Elder Scrolls Online is 82 gigs on disk. Which is the biggest one I own.

I played ESO when it was released for a couple of months, figured it couldn't be that bad patching it a month ago, over 30gb dl'd for patch

 

[Jeff7]

Yesterday. The 2.9 Gig surveillance video of the guy committing workers comp fraud against my company.

:awe:
Nice. :thumbsup:

 

[yh125d]

lol @ being worried if ISP would "mind" about the download

Yeah, this too. I have 100mbps with Cox, and that comes with 700gb/month data "cap". It's not really a cap because they don't choke you if you go past, all they do is send an email suggesting you upgrade to the next tier

 

[XavierMace]

Yeah, this too. I have 100mbps with Cox, and that comes with 700gb/month data "cap". It's not really a cap because they don't choke you if you go past, all they do is send an email suggesting you upgrade to the next tier

Funny story, they used to do the same thing when you're on the top tier. I called and asked what tier I was supposed to upgrade to.

 

[mnewsham]

Yeah, this too. I have 100mbps with Cox, and that comes with 700gb/month data "cap". It's not really a cap because they don't choke you if you go past, all they do is send an email suggesting you upgrade to the next tier

They can't actually expect you to fully utilize that 100mbps with only a 700gb cap.

With a 150mb/s connection I have almost 3TB of traffic a month.

 

[Red Squirrel]

64GB or so is what I know off the top of my head. I think I still had ADSL then, it took a couple weeks. it was not actually saturating the connection either so that's what made it take longer. I think I've done even more though such as uploading or downloading a VM image to/from an online server but can't recall for sure.

I'm just glad my ISP has no cap. That would royally suck.

 

[Rakehellion]

yomama.jpg

 

[balloonshark]

They can't actually expect you to fully utilize that 100mbps with only a 700gb cap.

With a 150mb/s connection I have almost 3TB of traffic a month.

Suddenlink's cap on their 100Mbps plan is only 400GB.

 

[KMFJD]

I managed 1.1GB on my 26.2k modem using DC+++ in a month

 

[mnewsham]

Suddenlink's cap on their 100Mbps plan is only 400GB.

that's only about 10 hours at 100mbps to hit that cap.


I don't see how that's justified. in a 1 month period you're expected to use less than 10 hours of your maximum bandwidth.

 

[sdifox]

that's only about 10 hours at 100mbps to hit that cap.


I don't see how that's justified. in a 1 month period you're expected to use less than 10 hours of your maximum bandwidth.

It's a fast ten hours :awe:

 

[Red Squirrel]

I managed 1.1GB on my 26.2k modem using DC+++ in a month

Hahah DC++ I forgot about that. I did not use it extensively, but it was definitely a neat concept. I ran a hub for a little while.

 

[KMFJD]

Hahah DC++ I forgot about that. I did not use it extensively, but it was definitely a neat concept. I ran a hub for a little while.

It was amazing for live music back then....

 

[zinfamous]

Actual size, or adjusted for speed?

I'm going with the latter, and saying the 1mb jpg of Stephanie Seymour and her tits that took me about 20 minutes to download back in 1996.

 

[Dude111]

The 90s called and they want their modem back.

Ah man!!

 

[purbeast0]

probably xcode, i think the largest ones are like a 6gb single file download.

 

[Raduque]

Biggest single file was Gangs of New York 1080p mkv. It's 29.8gb. The Godfather movies were pretty big too, about 25-26 gigs each.

Biggest game I've downloaded (Steam) is WolfTNO at 43gb.

that's only about 10 hours at 100mbps to hit that cap.


I don't see how that's justified. in a 1 month period you're expected to use less than 10 hours of your maximum bandwidth.

You're only supposed to do email, download 10-20 pictures, watch one movie (or two TV episodes) and download 5 songs a month. That's what the ISPs expect you to do.

 

[Homerboy]

probably xcode, i think the largest ones are like a 6gb single file download.

Really? I recall you downloading larger

 

[Homerboy]

Actual size, or adjusted for speed?

I'm going with the latter, and saying the 1mb jpg of Stephanie Seymour and her tits that took me about 20 minutes to download back in 1996.

That's an interesting way to go about it.
Size/speed ratio


that being said, I would also think pictures of Seymour/MacPherson/etc circa 1992-1994 are my winners.

The struggles we used to go through back then for some boobs...