Wow! 16KB/sec on dialup!

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Yzzim

Lifer
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I just downloaded the IDE/AGP drivers for my ECS mobo (which are around 7megs) and downloaded at a consistent 16KB/sec on a 56K modem connected at 45,333bps.

How is this possible??????

Here's the pic to prove it

It's Geocities, you know what to do.

Now I gotta run upstairs to see if the modem is on fire.
 
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Kenazo

Lifer
Sep 15, 2000
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nice desktop.. Who's Karleen? God Bless? intersting file names. And, that shouldn't be possible. b/c at 8 bits per byte, and being connected at 45,333, you should only be able to download @ 5.66K/s
 
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Yzzim

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http://203.66.2.110/ftp/Drivers/agp/10701t.exe
That's the file I downloaded if anyone else wants to give it a try :)



<< Earthlink... wow. Kudos to that. >>


Earthlink just bought out the local ISP (which was pretty good) so they haven't had time to infest it yet. All they've had time to do is raise the price :|
 
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GoldenBear

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Holy crap, I'm getting a constant 10kb/sec d/l here from that file! Seriously.

That's like some sort of super server or something.
 
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Hoeboy

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i dont understand why you guys are getting so ecstatic. go try downloading a large text file which is really compressable. you'll probably get more than 10-15kBps :p
 
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Yzzim

Lifer
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<< nice desktop.. Who's Karleen? God Bless? intersting file names. And, that shouldn't be possible. b/c at 8 bits per byte, and being connected at 45,333, you should only be able to download @ 5.66K/s >>



That's on my mom's computer. Karleen works with my mom on her buisness venture...or something. God Bless is actually God Bless America. Probably a bunch of forwards my mom got and she saved them all.
Note to self: Install virus scanner ASAP on her computer.
 
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Yzzim

Lifer
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<< i dont understand why you guys are getting so ecstatic. go try downloading a large text file which is really compressable. you'll probably get more than 10-15kBps :p >>


I have no use for a text file. Downloading something that I actually need at a fast transfer rate (for me anyway) is worth getting exciting about.
 
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Hoeboy

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<<I have no use for a text file. Downloading something that I actually need at a fast transfer rate (for me anyway) is worth getting exciting about. >>

yes but i'm trying to make a point that the file you downloaded was probably really compressable, hence the fast rate. it's not because your modem took steroids :p
 
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nortexoid

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would u get excited if i told that u've gotten over 300kb/sec+ on my cable modem?

edit: what i said above makes absolutely no sense, so i shall leave it as it is...
 
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Kenazo

Lifer
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;) i'm just kidding around. but good job on those downloads.. still seem kinda weird to me. I tried downloading that file on my aDSL connection.. it'll only hit 17.7 for me... oh wait, now it's @ 20. weird. It's not fair if u 56k ppl can match my dsl.
now lets see u get those kinda transfer rates consistently. :) (for mp3, i average 35 on winmx)
 
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Angrymarshmello

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It's just the file. Nothing to get excited over. (BTW, same thing happens with .WAV files - you'll get 15+ kb/s transfers on those suckers too)
 
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morkinva

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This doesn't seem physically possible. You can't figure in the compression of the file in your calculation, its raw kilobytes-per-second or whatever that the download is clocked at. So the theoretical limit should be something like 53.3 Kbps / 8 (# of bits in a byte) = 6.66 KBPS <edit>
 
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Mephistopheles

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Somebody who got the file, go ahead and zip it and post how big it is when zipped. This should give us an idea about the compression.
 
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Aihyah

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its not that exciting once you realize that a zipped file will never transfer any faster then your modems max uncompressed speed. zip compression is probabyl better then your modems anyhow. probably get 30+kb/s on some text files
 
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Yzzim

Lifer
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<< Somebody who got the file, go ahead and zip it and post how big it is when zipped. This should give us an idea about the compression. >>


When I try to add the file to WinZip I get an error that says "Bad Header"
 
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