WOW! Amazing bandwidth speed

[TraumaRN]

So while I've seen discussions before on download speeds in off-topic I just have to say I think I witnessed a miracle tonight while attempting to download the latest battlefield 2 patch I discovered the joys of uncapped downloads, now the demo is 171 megabytes of something like that, the download started and was finished in approximately 3 seconds for those of you who are good at math thats approximately 57 megabytes a second, and no I'm not joking.....it happened so fast I couldnt get a screenshot...I'm gonna attempt to see if it'll do it again for me and get a screenshot to prove it...

All this was possible thanks to my university and it's uncapped download speeds....Lord only knows what kind of connection they have to achieve such speeds...but anyways if anyone else wants to post their screenshots of fast downloads go ahead but i think i have the record for the time being

 

[Ricemarine]

Shens......

I really do hope that patch was corrupt.

 

[vshah]

total utter shens. 100 mbit lan cannot transmit data that fast.

and anyway, the server you downloaded it from would not send it to you that fast

 

[Slimline]

I am thinking some sort of server error....did the patch install correctly?

 

[kukyfrope]

Most I've seen on my home cable line was 1.1MB/s and that was total torrent transfer.

You sure it wasn't being pulled from a server on your LAN?

 

[BrokenVisage]

Shens error.

 

[vshah]

Originally posted by: kukyfrope
Most I've seen on my home cable line was 1.1MB/s and that was total torrent transfer.

You sure it wasn't being pulled from a server on your LAN?

unless the whole campus is on gigabit, it'd be tough...

 

[swtethan]

it was a html file you downlaoded

 

[vtqanh]

Originally posted by: vshah
total utter shens. 100 mbit lan cannot transmit data that fast.

and anyway, the server you downloaded it from would not send it to you that fast

it could be that the file was cached at his school's server. Some dude probably just finished downloaded it seconds ago

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: vshah
total utter shens. 100 mbit lan cannot transmit data that fast.

and anyway, the server you downloaded it from would not send it to you that fast

Yep. PEBKAC.

Originally posted by: vtqanh


it could be that the file was cached at his school's server. Some dude probably just finished downloaded it seconds ago

NIC specs and TCP/IP parameters?

 

[Allio]

Your hard drive could barely sustain that, let alone your network card.

 

[ThePresence]

I wouldn't install that file.

 

[Anubis]

yea theres no way that happened

 

[d33pt]

Uhh that's umpossible. Even if somehow your connection was that fast..your crappy IDE hard drive wouldn't be able to write that fast. And your connection is not that fast since i really doubt it's gigabit. This is only possible with gigabit ethernet and a ton of scsi HD's in a raid 5 array.

Think before you post.

 

[JoLLyRoGer]

Maybe he's on an 'Internet 2' connection.

 

[Rogue]

Originally posted by: vshah

Originally posted by: kukyfrope
Most I've seen on my home cable line was 1.1MB/s and that was total torrent transfer.

You sure it wasn't being pulled from a server on your LAN?

unless the whole campus is on gigabit, it'd be tough...

Exactly. He would have to have almost a direct connection to a proxy server at gigabit speed to even come close to thinking that he downloaded a file that fast from a web site.

 

[ironcrotch]

I used to have a buddy that worked for Comcast call center and he'd uncap my dl/ul all. It was nice while it lasted.

 

[TraumaRN]

Yea I know you guys would be doubting but it installed correctly....I dont know what happened but it was literally clicked save to desktop and then it was done...and sadly I dont know what sort of connection my university uses beyond the fact thats it's generally blazingly fast....I'm in the detroit area and I can connect to a server in a chicago or new york for DOD:Source and have a ping of <8 steady...

EDIT: And I know that the main server/internet portal for this part of campus is about 25 feet away if that helps anything...

 

[Anubis]

run a speed test at dslreports.com see what you get

its still impossiable for that to DL that fast seeing as as someone pointed out your HDD wouldent be able to write that fast

 

[silverpig]

It was probably a cached download. You had most of it already. You can mess around with some speed tests (cnets is good example) where you do the test, then hit back and refresh the test page. You'll get insane "speeds" as the file is downloaded from your hard drive to your hard drive.

I just got 6375 kbps at cnet (a bit low), and then hit back on my browser to get 131612.9 kbps.

 

[silent tone]

Yeah, it was caching the file. I thought I was getting a few MBs once but it slowed to normal speeds once it got done copying the cached data to the destination folder.

 

[whistleclient]

Originally posted by: DeathBUA
Yea I know you guys would be doubting but it installed correctly....I dont know what happened but it was literally clicked save to desktop and then it was done...and sadly I dont know what sort of connection my university uses beyond the fact thats it's generally blazingly fast....I'm in the detroit area and I can connect to a server in a chicago or new york for DOD:Source and have a ping of <8 steady...

EDIT: And I know that the main server/internet portal for this part of campus is about 25 feet away if that helps anything...

ping = latency, not bandwith. although i am jealous of that ping...

 

[dethman]

ah the uninformed and ignorant. they'll believe anything.

 

[TraumaRN]

Alright so I finally got a pic....it was 58 megabytes a second but you'll get the idea

Ok got a picture

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/DeathBUA/hugebandwidth.JPG

That was done 2 second later no joke....and I've never downloaded any of these before....my computer hangs for a moment then continues on it's merry way...now off to test speeds at dslreports..

 

[mdchesne]

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