[citizeneman]

Just for fun, What's the largest file you have downloaded using dial-up?

For me it's like 1.8GB , Required me to leave computer on every night for a week.

So, how bout you?

This post has been edited by citizeneman: 14 May 2006 - 11:33 PM

[Biohead]

Probably 8mb - by which time I got bored and then signed upto broadband

[tha_demon2004]

when i had dial-up the largest file i downloaded was 4gb

[KRYOGENIUS]

Hello

This big file i had downloaded is Norton Antivirus 2005 (25Mo). For years ago !!!

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[EchoNoise]

It would have to be up there with tha_demon...

A DVD Iso of Fedora Core 3

[n7Epsilon]

The largest I downloaded on dial-up was Service Pack 2 for XP (272 MB)...

Then I got ADSL...

[citizeneman]

tha_demon2004, on May 15 2006, 01:21 AM, said:

when i had dial-up the largest file i downloaded was 4gb

How long did that take you?

[os2fan2]

I use a free-download-manager.

I have done a number of 250k downloads (usp5, usp5.1, autopatch2000, autopatchxp). In the main, it can run on a low prioity stop-start while you answer emails and message boards. I have a 80mb download running in the mo.

W

[citizeneman]

os2fan2, on May 15 2006, 04:43 AM, said:

I use a free-download-manager.

I have done a number of 250k downloads (usp5, usp5.1, autopatch2000, autopatchxp). In the main, it can run on a low prioity stop-start while you answer emails and message boards. I have a 80mb download running in the mo.

W

May I ask what download manager you are using?

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The painfull thing is that for 2-3 years I had broadband, so to go from 300kB/s to 5kB/s, it was a hard adjustment.

[randiroo76073]

Downloaded ISO of Suse bout 6 mos ago, 7 days @ 6 hrs a day[12am-6am]. I use "Free Download Manager"
http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/
Nother good one is "Fresh Download"
http://www.freshdevi.../freshdown.html

[citizeneman]

Looks good, thanks.

[LLXX]

I recommend FlashGet download manager v1.50 (NOT the newer versions, they tend to consume more memory).

Largest file I've downloaded through dial-up was ~730Mb. Average speed 6.2Kb/s.

[Daemonforce]

The largest file I've downloaded over dial-up was a 2.5GB DVD image. I still use dial-up because nothing better is available around here.

To this day I have gathered roughly 600GB of data off the Internet.

[janus zeal]

largest file ive downloaded is ~700 mb cd image took about a week...3 or 4 hours a day.

now ive got adsl, i can download a 700 mb file in about 10 mins...

[os2fan2]

For those curious, i use http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/ proggie, v 1.9. You can start-stop things with it, and it does one after another.

W

[randiroo76073]

Just downloaded DSL[**** small linux] ISO last night, 49.1mb, 4 hrs 7 mins. Not to bad for dial-up

[citizeneman]

Nice, like a few months ago I was downloading something and my kB/s got up to 12kB/s , and it stayed like that for a few hours, I was so shocked I took a screenshot of it, ill try to find it lol.

[LLXX]

citizeneman, on May 17 2006, 11:56 AM, said:

Nice, like a few months ago I was downloading something and my kB/s got up to 12kB/s , and it stayed like that for a few hours, I was so shocked I took a screenshot of it, ill try to find it lol.

Modem compression. Even in the very best case over dialup, 64kbps is the limit, more often 56kbps. The throughput speed is higher since the modem is compressing the data; the actual speed of the receive is probably 5-6KB/s.

This post has been edited by LLXX: 17 May 2006 - 09:26 PM

[aurgathor]

randiroo76073, on May 15 2006, 05:42 AM, said:

Downloaded ISO of Suse bout 6 mos ago, 7 days @ 6 hrs a day[12am-6am]. I use "Free Download Manager"
http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/
Nother good one is "Fresh Download"
http://www.freshdevi.../freshdown.html

I have used the freshdevice DL manager a while ago, but it was too buggy for my taste. They may have fixed it by now, I don't know.

I don't remember the biggest file, but once I was online for over 8 days (!!) uninterrupted on a $10/month dialup line.

This post has been edited by aurgathor: 17 May 2006 - 10:48 PM

[randiroo76073]

As an aside, I'm using a Diamond Supra 2750 PCI modem, mfgd in 96[AFAIK] that works better[faster troughput] than any of newer modems I've tried. Newer is not always better

This post has been edited by randiroo76073: 18 May 2006 - 05:50 AM