What's the largest download you've ever completed?

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natto fire

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Jan 4, 2000
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You did not set any stipulations, and it seems like many took it upon their liberty to include multiple files.

If you want to get like that, it was the torrents I queued up before I left for a 1 month vacation, which totaled over 30 GB.

The largest for one single torrent was like 12GB.
 

Ika

Lifer
Mar 22, 2006
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28gb torrent.

I have small hard drives. AND YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT GUYS WITH SMALL HARD DRIVES RIGHT? small file sizes
 

compnovice

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Jun 18, 2005
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WTF, I am way behind times... So what do I download now to come back and give you guys a respectable number :p
 

tasmanian

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Dec 22, 2006
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Originally posted by: compnovice
WTF, I am way behind times... So what do I download now to come back and give you guys a respectable number :p

1TB of pr0n will do.
 

zach0624

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Jul 13, 2007
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The largest I have downloaded was 1.8gb(bioshock or wic demo) I have a download cap though at 17gb including surfing with wild blue satellite dsl. I hit 16gb for the month after wic and bioshock, normal surfing and small patches/apps take up 10gb a month according to wild blue.
 

Quasmo

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Jul 7, 2004
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90GB Planet Earth HD rip. I downloaded it 10 times in one month. I would get it and delete it. I ended up downloading a TB over a 6mbps connection from comcast. I canceled my service that month, wanted to see how much I could download.
 

Dean

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Oct 10, 1999
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The largest single download was like a 2.3 gig Mandrake ISO. First attempt I tried it with IE, that was a big mistake. Second attempt with Firefox was successful.
 

nboy22

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Jul 18, 2002
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If we were talking monthly here... Last month I downloaded 360 gigabytes off of newsgroups.. I didn't even get a letter from my ISP! haha
 

ForumMaster

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Feb 24, 2005
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not including torrents, probably the vista RC2 image which was, what something lik 2GB?
with torrents, probably 8GBs. i do this when i buy the DVD's for a show but i want the entire season on a less dvds. so i download xvid encoded files.
 

vailr

Diamond Member
Oct 9, 1999
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35 Gb torrent of an HD TV series; shared back the torrent to over 2x ratio.
 

tjaisv

Banned
Oct 7, 2002
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12TBs of dvd-rs over several straight days @15mb/s

was burning them every day to free up disk space...