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"My dial-up connection is going mental!"

And that's mental in a very...very good way!

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. :(

Pfft, forget 1MB, I'm looking forward to 2MB :)

the fastest dial-up speed i got was 10kb/s now i am geting 107kb/s, i have dsl. :) Yeah baby!!!

Uncle Albert wrote:
> 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.

This was on Kazaa also, but was an .exe file. Unfortunately, turned out to be rubbish aswell. Ah well...felt good at the time! :)

I had this when I was downloading some video files from kazaa. One was in December 2001 and that was around 20k/s and the other was in May 2001 around 50k/s on a 56k connection. I saw that it was using something like 98% compression so thats probably why the speeds were fast. The video files were completely blank. So basically I think that if its a video file it will be blank.

Nice one mate ;)

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.

And that's mental in a very...very good way!

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. :(