What is the fastest that you have ever downloaded a file?

[Jay59express]

I was downloading scour media agent the other night and got around a 1000k/sec, and like 3 days ago i was downloading liveware for windows 2000 from creatives web site at around 800k/sec. It was late at night (early in the morning?) so that explains the speed. Did all this off the schools T1.
These speeds are not kilobit per second, they are kilobye per second, so the scour one was right around a megabyte at second

 

[prodigy]

Well, I'm using my 2400 baud modem, this took me nearly 5 minutes to respond to.

 

[Monel Funkawitz]

5.1 KPS

 

[Poontos]

T1 can`t do 1000k/sec.

Sorry, better research a bit more before you make up lies.

T1 will probably do a bit over 160k/sec, if no one else is using it.

T1 = 1.5Mbps

 

[Pretender]

Yeah, I was almost jealous until I noticed that your numbers don't work in the real world.

Before you start quoting maximum numbers off some website, convert KB to Kb.

 

[Monel Funkawitz]

Thank god I'm not the only one that caught this.

I got 182.2k one time on my 56k modem. I was downloading a Word text file.

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

The fastest sustained I've ever seen was about 500kilobytes per second.

I've had a burst of 900+KB a second though (only lasted for about 10 seconds before diving down below 400).

 

[Jay59express]

Maybe we have multiple T1's or something, but i am positive that i downloaded those files, so i am not making up sh*t
i will go and download a file and take a screenshot
when scour took less than 5 seconds to download, thats pretty fast
and you better do more research, because our T1 is 10 Mbps

 

[Poontos]

At T1 is a T1. There are different variations -- burstable, fractional, etc. But, a "T1", is 1.54Mbps. Period.

 

[konichiwa]

500kBytes/Second

 

[Poontos]

Maybe you do have multiple T1's, I don`t go to your high-speed heaven school.

But, the real question is, shouldn`t you be using the school's resources for research and school purposes?

 

[Jay59express]

oops, didnt catch that in time

 

[konichiwa]

<<piece of steaming dog sh*t for the most part, but its good for the most part>>

Eh? :Q

 

[Jay59express]

Actually, our schools server is a piece of steaming dog sh*t for the most part, but its good at times.
here is a link to my screenshot i just took
only 500k/sec, but that will do.
http://www.vermontel.com/~jtwms/Screenshot.jpg

And when i look under my network properties it says that my connection is 10.0 Mbps, so do we really have a T3?

and oh yeah, i would never actually use the schools server for anything but work

 

[extra]

104k/sec
(on my dsl)
187k/sec
(on my old schools t1-and i don't care if the numbers don't add up...maybe the file was slightly compressible or something!)

EDIT: just figured out, if a t1 is 1.5mb, then the max you could get is like, about 187k/sec...so hey...what'dya know!

 

[Viper GTS]

I have a screenshot at work of the download results from a 1.1 megabyte file. Took me 2 seconds. Really funny thing is there are pushing 1000 computers or more where I work, &amp; they're all on a 10baseT, which in turn is connected to a T1. 500 kilobytes/second shouldn't even be possible.

But then again I've seen burst transfers on my 56 in the 10 - 15 KB range, &amp; the download times reflected that.

[EDIT]Jay59express...

That's the speed of your LAN connection, you're running a 10BaseT network.[/EDIT]

Go figure.



Viper GTS

 

[IBhacknU]

the max I've seen on the T1 here at work is 157.3K/sec

<edit>fast?</edit>

 

[Jay59express]

Ok, that clears up the whole 10 Mbps thing
but whatever the speed, i can occasionally get really fast downloads
thats all i was trying to say, i wasn't try to start a flame war. I jut wanted to see what different people on dirrerent types of connections could download.

 

[Poontos]

Jay,

It's all good. Keep it real.

 

[Snipa]

656 KiloBytes/per second, (yes bytes) using @home cable service in the wee hours of the morning, off juston.com.

But I average around the 270-300 K mark.

I have a screenshot of it somewhere, gotta go look for it.

 

[MustangSVT]

OK poontos, so you are saying that we are never supposed to get more then rated speed? oh ? then how do u explain 11Kbytes/sec on 56k modem (from MSN download.)? and on your opinion what's the rated speed on cable modem? cause i get 3Mbits/sec download and so usualy 300~400 kbytes/sec if the server is good. and on some rare occasions ive seen 500kB/s for couple seconds too. Explain to me please. (p.s. but the bad side is my upload is capped at 125kb/s, bummer )

 

[Cable God]

I once hit 505.17/k (5 megabits) on this sory @ss @home cable, using D/L accelerator or course. NOrmally I only get around 2mbit at most, with the norm being around 1.5 megabits . Waiting on DSL...

 

[BiggieN]

i transfer upstairs to my neighbors on AIM file transfer at 765k/s consistently...

 

[Poontos]

Yes, that is what I am saying. You read well.

I am the the BANDWIDTH GOD, that is why your speed fluctuates. I control it. If you have been good, I slap it up a notch, and you know what happens when you are bad.

There are WAY too many factors for someone to say that you are ONLY going to get a speed of ****.**

Just be happy that you have a good connection...

Keep it real, mofo.

 

[bigben]

mmmmmm....gotta love Duke's t3 and ethernet capabilities. In the Duke network i have gotten 3 Mb/s. Downloading from web i have gotten 1 Mb/s