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Currently downloading a 172mb file at...get this... 35kb/s!
And it's been downloading at this rate for the past hour! Oh yeah, and to complicate matters further, I'm connected at 28.8k (I'm on a DACS line).
All I can say is...go AOL! :D
Probably be back to it's miserly 3kb/s tomorrow. :(
Currently downloading a 172mb file at...get this... 35kb/s!
And it's been downloading at this rate for the past hour! Oh yeah, and to complicate matters further, I'm connected at 28.8k (I'm on a DACS line).
All I can say is...go AOL! :D
Probably be back to it's miserly 3kb/s tomorrow. :(
My dial up's fastest download speed was 24kb/s, for about 10 mins, then dropped gradually down to 9.61kb/s which it stayed at for the rest of the download.
> This was on Kazaa also, but was an .exe file. Unfortunately, turned
> out to be rubbish aswell. Ah well...felt good at the time! :)
Thought it would be rubbish as the times I had a fast speed the files were rubbish. It did feel great as at the time Broadband wasnt available in my area, but now I have had ADSL since June 2002. Hopefully will get the 1mb service soon if my line is good enough.
> Pfft, forget 1MB, I'm looking forward to 2MB :)
Yeah so am I, but 1mb ADSL home is a reality and not 2mb at the moment. Ok you can get 2mb via some ISPs but that uses Datastream which isnt as highly supported at exchanges as IPstream.
> the fastest dial-up speed i got was 10kb/s now i am geting 107kb/s, i
> have dsl. :) Yeah baby!!!
Whats that with then? As ADSL is only a sustained 60k/s. Is that 107k/s a peak value for example at the start of a file? You call it DSL so your not from America or somewhere other than the UK?
Your computer is calculating the speed wrong. Ive had it tell me ive been downloading at 1mb, on a 56k modem, as we know, thats not possible.
If BT upgraded my exchange for ADSL i would be able to recieve the 2MB service. We've only got 71 people who have registered interest for it though.