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oneeighty

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Oct 9, 1999
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Just now 525.5kB/sec here on AT&T@Home in the Bay Area. It's 9:00PM PST, but the time of day doesn't seem to make any difference b/c the d/l rate is always a little over a 0.5MB/sec.
 

joey1412

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Oct 30, 2000
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522 KB/Sec from Scour.net. Actually, exactly the same as Jay59Express's screenshot.

Does anyone know what this is equal too as far as connections or equipment? I'm in a college dorm.

joey1412
 

merlocka

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Nov 24, 1999
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I've seen over 350kBps on my @home with the patch. I was pretty tweaked about that. 56k modems can sometimes report higher than 5kBps cause the timing. If you just miss the first second and download 5kbps for the next two, it will report ten at the end of the first second. it will then drop quickly to five. it's that fuzzy washington math.
 

BiggieN

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we have a dual t3 backbone here...and a dedicated t-1 line for this dorm building here alone...call us spoiled.

one of our buildings got wired for oc something...forgot which but there we get blazing fast internet at the comp lab...unfortunately they have super fast P2 300's with 64mb of ram...so no heavy gaming.
 

Budman

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Oct 9, 1999
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The best i ever get is from my newsgroup from @home.

about 340kB/s , i am capped at 3 megabits downloads . :(
 

NikPreviousAcct

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back at Intel, I had an 8000K connection, downloading at 1000K.

Here, at home, I have a whopping 36-40K connection (until I get my phone jack rebuilt anyway) with a dl speed of <1 to about 3.





















































]*GRR*[/b]
 

DefRef

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Nov 9, 2000
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It really depends on what's going on at the other end, but I've hit 3500 kb/s frequently when I've had 10 simultaneous DLs going. They may individually only be 300-500 kb/s, but it's like having a 50-lane highway. ZERO bottlenecks.

As for raw DL speed, I DLed the Kingpin demo in about 18 minutes. I think it was about 110MB. Can't remember for sure.
 

chiwawa626

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Aug 15, 2000
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The highest ive gotten is 280k/s, but i think i can get higher if there was a realy fast person or server i can try with
 

astroview

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Dec 14, 1999
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something like 2 megabytes per second downloading from a Microsoft server in Chicago, I live in Cleveland. Back then I was on fiberoptic ATM, and my school has an OC-3.

 

Cable God

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Jun 25, 2000
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NicColt, I don't think AT&amp;T @Home downstream is capped, it wasn't when I worked there. The upstream is though.
 

3615buck

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Sep 22, 2000
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512 Terabytes a millisecond.
I'm not making it up, I really did it with my satellite connection on my pentium 12 at 1200 GHz !


 

StageLeft

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Sep 29, 2000
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Lets get something straight here:

A T1, as Poontos so correctly stated, is not capable of even 200k/sec EVER. A single T1 will not get faster - you can have a 10mbps or 100 network but the T1 is still limiting you outside of the network. People who have said they've gotten 11k/sec on a 56k are probabaly victims of defective software in terms of tracking your speed. A 56k will not get more than about ~5-6k/sec, Its just impossible. I'm not sure if a modem byte has a start and stop bit...if not then you could ideally get about 7k/sec.

I had a friend who told me his 56k could ocassionally get 70k/sec. He was wrong, and living in dream land. I used to see mine ocassionally read 9k/sec on a download but it was the software reading the transfer incorrectly.

Back to question at hand my DSL once hit 491k/sec :)
 

Fardringle

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Oct 23, 2000
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Skoorb:
Doing the 'math' for the theoretical maximum, you are right. However, on our T1 at work, using several different systems, and dozens of different download software programs, we have quite often had sustained (over 10 minutes or more) download speeds of 250K/second or more, and we have occassionally had some that were over 300K/second... (and yes, it is a single T1) :)
 

Sword

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Mar 20, 2000
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40 Mb in 160 seconds -> 250 Kb/sec with cable modem here in canada. It was a service pack for NT40.

[Edit]It was a long time ago...maybe im wrong with the numbers...What is the maximum possible transfer rate for cable modem ?[/Edit]

 

StageLeft

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Sep 29, 2000
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Sword

Depends on your provider. I had 400k/sec on my cable before...


Fardringle I'm no network admin but how can software increase the physical limits of your T1 line?
 

Josh

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I've gotten 600kb-1.5meg a second on my cable line at very low-traffic hours. But, my usual download speed is about 150kb-300kb.
 

Gatsby

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My best ever burst speed was 4Meg/s.
My best ever sustained speed was somnewhere along the lines of a Meg/s (I was transfering from my roomates ftp)

Gatsby