Super fast 56k download!

Warthog · February 28th, 2002, 02:47 AM

I have a screenshot of me getting 16k/sec for about a min from kazaa...it

NO WAY....the download, U2's superbowl performance is now playing on VH1...oh wait, just the song, not the actual performance....anyhew.....

....whoa cool, live performance...sick....yeah, anyway

it fluctuated between 12-16k/sec until about 1.5mb was downloaded, then went back to 5-6k/sec

.

grrrr wish I had SOME form of broadband...instead now I have to set my alarm and wake up at 5am to get offline (blocking the freaking phoneline and other people from going online...). Even ISDN with dl speeds of 25k/sec would be kick@$$ compared to normal 56k...

hmm maybe I should get a phoneline installed.....that's like $30/month by itself

Oh well, DSL will come to this area eventually

Warthog

tobu · February 28th, 2002, 03:09 AM

I have a good ol 56k and i would kill for band width. My downloads are pretty good. My ISP has soem form of compresion thing where they download the file realy fats on thier band width then you dl from them, using the compression its like getting 30 k a sec..

On the topic, anyone want to give my bandwidth????

LiLRiceBoi · February 28th, 2002, 03:30 AM

My downloads start taht fast, then about a minute later its down to about 5k/sec

storm2k · February 28th, 2002, 03:37 AM

once when i had 56k, i was using getright to download something with segemented downloading, and it actually told me was dl'ing at 50K/s... suffice it to say i was so impressed i took a picture of it...

PonzSpyder · February 28th, 2002, 11:30 AM

Quote:

it fluctuated between 12-16k/sec until about 1.5mb was downloaded, then went back to 5-6k/sec

That could be because it was trying to calculate the average download speed as you were downloading the file, the number you get at first is not really your transfer rate. The best estimation to go by is the number last seen at the end of the download, that way it had as much info as possible to "average" your overall transfer rate.

Of course, this is only my opinion, I could be wrong.

storm2k:
For all we know though that number could be talking about bits, after all, you were using a 56kbit modem

8bits = 1Byte
50.8kbits/second = 6.35kBytes/second

Polygon · February 28th, 2002, 04:46 PM

Nice! I am amazed you were able to get that. Though one I was able to get about an average of 11-12k per second on Napster a long time ago. I was able to do so for about an hour. It was quite nice.

MDdan · February 28th, 2002, 05:01 PM

With my Aopen winmodem on dialup, I was able to get up to 25kbs for extended periods.(I have a screenshot somewhere) 11-16 kbs were common, and it was rare not to be able to get a combined 9kbs on multiple downloads. Not broadband, but it still blew my mind. If they could consistanly push 25 kbs through dialup, I might just get rid of my cable modem.

Nah....

Mike · February 28th, 2002, 08:32 PM

I just hate 56K in general.

Cody · February 28th, 2002, 08:38 PM

it seems higher-quality (heh) softmodems actually get better speeds...

I have a friend with a cheap dell (lower end) that will sustain 11k/second for 10-20MB download... the FULL DOWNLOAD.

Cody

ocit · February 28th, 2002, 08:41 PM

yeah 56k is like a scooter on the freeway. the only viable broadband solution for me is satelitte and thats way too expensive for such high latency. im amazed if i get 5 k a sec. im like 42000 ft from the nearest co .