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#1 User is offline   citizeneman 

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  Posted 14 May 2006 - 11:31 PM

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

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

So, how bout you?

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Posted 15 May 2006 - 12:17 AM

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

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Posted 15 May 2006 - 12:21 AM

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

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Posted 15 May 2006 - 12:56 AM

Hello

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

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Posted 15 May 2006 - 01:00 AM

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

A DVD Iso of Fedora Core 3

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Posted 15 May 2006 - 01:22 AM

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

Then I got ADSL...

#7 User is offline   citizeneman 

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Posted 15 May 2006 - 01:31 AM

View Posttha_demon2004, on May 15 2006, 01:21 AM, said:

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


:wacko:

How long did that take you?

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Posted 15 May 2006 - 03:43 AM

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.

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#9 User is offline   citizeneman 

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Posted 15 May 2006 - 03:54 AM

View Postos2fan2, 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.

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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.

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Posted 15 May 2006 - 05:42 AM

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

#11 User is offline   citizeneman 

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Posted 15 May 2006 - 05:54 AM

Looks good, thanks.

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Posted 15 May 2006 - 10:39 PM

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.

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Posted 16 May 2006 - 02:37 AM

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.

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Posted 16 May 2006 - 02:03 PM

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...

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Posted 17 May 2006 - 03:10 AM

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.

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Posted 17 May 2006 - 05:58 AM

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

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Posted 17 May 2006 - 10:56 AM

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.

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Posted 17 May 2006 - 09:26 PM

View Postcitizeneman, 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.

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Posted 17 May 2006 - 10:46 PM

View Postrandiroo76073, 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.

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Posted 18 May 2006 - 05:49 AM

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 :)

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