randiroo76073 Posted May 17, 2006 Share Posted May 17, 2006 Just downloaded DSL[**** small linux] ISO last night, 49.1mb, 4 hrs 7 mins. Not to bad for dial-up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
citizeneman Posted May 17, 2006 Author Share Posted May 17, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 (edited) 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. Edited May 18, 2006 by LLXX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aurgathor Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 (edited) 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.freshdevices.com/freshdown.htmlI 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. Edited May 18, 2006 by aurgathor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randiroo76073 Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 (edited) 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 Edited May 18, 2006 by randiroo76073 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daemonforce Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 Yeah well I'm using a SupraExpress 56iVoice!GG pwned kthnx no re. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janus zeal Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 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.freshdevices.com/freshdown.htmlI 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.my friend chozo used to go on for weeks at a time over dialup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prx984 Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 i dont know about you guys, but around my area dialup wasnt even an option because of noise on the phone lines. my dad fixed that (turns out it was the builders fault, they didnt hook up the lines properly) and after that, the highest download speed i could get would be aroun 3 kb/sec. before , we couldnt even stay online long enough. just kept gettin kicked off ever 5 ferkin minutes. but anyway, the largest file i dled on dialup was around 20mb and it took just over 8 agonising hours of being kicked off and having to dial in again. not to mention the phone bill was increased because of it. stupid me lol about 2 years after that, we opted for rogers high speed lite. at first it was 32kb/sec, now its over 120kb/sec and we're still with the same plan o.O at first i thought i had accidentally uncapped my modem (how i do not know) but then we later found out that rogers had upped everyone because bell was going to release a newer, higher speed plan for less money.-brian- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmsta Posted May 22, 2006 Share Posted May 22, 2006 I used to download linux iso's, so 625MB x2, for redhat and such... that was WAY back... I've had broadband since September 17th, 2001... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLASYS Posted May 23, 2006 Share Posted May 23, 2006 What's dial-up? cjl (Optimum Boost 2.1 MBps uplink, 28.4 MBps downlink) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bilemke Posted May 24, 2006 Share Posted May 24, 2006 What's dial-up? cjl (Optimum Boost 2.1 MBps uplink, 28.4 MBps downlink)Smart a**.. You really like to brag your net connection dont you? http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=55962&st=15# Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dar_vr Posted May 24, 2006 Share Posted May 24, 2006 I used to download constantly on dialup, left it connected Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghosty_Gool Posted May 24, 2006 Share Posted May 24, 2006 XP SP2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
citizeneman Posted May 24, 2006 Author Share Posted May 24, 2006 (edited) Can you believe in places like Japan, EVERYONE has broadband and it costs about as much as our dial-up. Im gonna just get broadband on again for a month or two and download everything I need, just purchased like 300 dvd-r's.PS: has anyone tried that new Verizon dsl plan thats like $15 a month? any good? Edited May 24, 2006 by citizeneman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janus zeal Posted May 24, 2006 Share Posted May 24, 2006 Can you believe in places like Japan, EVERYONE has broadband and it costs about as much as our dial-up. Im gonna just get broadband on again for a month or two and download everything I need, just purchased like 300 dvd-r's.PS: has anyone tried that new Verizon dsl plan thats like $15 a month? any good?in japan..well, tokyo at least, you can get ~28 mbps broadband and voip from yahoo for about 3838 yen (~34$)for an extra 1000 yen (~8$) you can get a wifi router. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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