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Title: How fast was it for you?
Post by: Swoop on October 15, 2003, 03:36:38 PM: :rofl

(http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2002-8/48257/Image2.jpg)

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Title: How fast was it for you?
Post by: daddog on October 15, 2003, 03:44:18 PM: I hate you.

It will take me several hours to download after I get home. I will not see it till Thursday AM very early before I go to work.
Title: How fast was it for you?
Post by: LePaul on October 15, 2003, 03:48:36 PM: 79.5k pretty much as fast as our circuit is

Boy that ISP must be going "wuuf" at the MRTG bandwidth log :)
Title: How fast was it for you?
Post by: Blank on October 15, 2003, 03:49:51 PM: mmm :aok

(http://www.blankfish.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/images/download_s.jpg)
Title: How fast was it for you?
Post by: Ozark on October 15, 2003, 04:00:58 PM: I got 9 hours 14 minutes to go. :(
Title: How fast was it for you?
Post by: jordi on October 15, 2003, 04:04:04 PM: 150 KB/Sec for me here at work.
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Post by: WxMan on October 15, 2003, 04:18:10 PM: One minute and 50 seconds....I love cable. :D
Title: How fast was it for you?
Post by: Sancho on October 15, 2003, 05:53:56 PM: about 350 kilobytes/sec here. HTC definitely ain't hurting for downloads bandwidth. :)
Title: How fast was it for you?
Post by: h345 on October 15, 2003, 06:53:21 PM: about 1minute and 30 seconds with cable
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Post by: Reschke on October 15, 2003, 06:55:59 PM: Got it in a little over 2 minutes...you gotta love this ADSL connection.
Title: How fast was it for you?
Post by: vorticon on October 15, 2003, 07:14:24 PM: 26.6kbps here...damn primetime downloads
Title: How fast was it for you?
Post by: Ozark on October 15, 2003, 07:39:31 PM: I still got 3+ hours to go on 56K. :(

Living at the end of a gravel road with no houses in sight... Priceless! :aok
Title: How fast was it for you?
Post by: acepilot2 on October 15, 2003, 07:57:31 PM: 2 minutes with cable modem.
Title: How fast was it for you?
Post by: SLO on October 16, 2003, 07:23:23 AM: Quote
Originally posted by acepilot2
2 minutes with cable modem.

same:p
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Post by: BlkKnit on October 16, 2003, 08:10:30 AM: Took me 3+ hours and all I managed to do was confirm that my low end machine would not run it :eek: :p
Title: How fast was it for you?
Post by: Flossy on October 16, 2003, 03:25:03 PM: Took me 7 minutes - not as fast as some here, but it was fast enough for me (Zeb was downloading something else at the same time and Cloud was playing on Everquest). :)
Title: How fast was it for you?
Post by: medicboy on October 16, 2003, 04:11:13 PM: 1 min, 37 sec. Love that cable! And I live on a dirt road with no houses in sight!:aok
Title: How fast was it for you?
Post by: GScholz on October 16, 2003, 09:31:06 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Flossy
Took me 7 minutes - not as fast as some here, but it was fast enough for me (Zeb was downloading something else at the same time and Cloud was playing on Everquest). :)

Oh no, your son is hooked on Evercrack? You better straighten him out, that stuff is dangerous!
Title: How fast was it for you?
Post by: Flossy on October 17, 2003, 02:32:03 AM: Quote
Originally posted by GScholz
Oh no, your son is hooked on Evercrack? You better straighten him out, that stuff is dangerous!
LOL, yeah.... well his interest in it comes and goes, but right now it's a definite 'on' phase. :)
Title: How fast was it for you?
Post by: Swoop on October 17, 2003, 04:26:20 AM: So.....like.........you've got a 3 PC network and the whole family sits and surfs/plays/works all at the same time?

Do you still pay for a TV license or hasn't the box been on since the ADSL was installed?
Title: How fast was it for you?
Post by: Flossy on October 17, 2003, 06:31:47 AM: Yep - actually Zeb and Cloud have a couple of PCs and there is another we used to use as a server, all networked. There's usually at least one of us online most of the time we are at home and not in bed, but we do watch some TV too (sometimes at the same time - there is a TV in the computer room upstairs) :D Oh, and it's been like this since long before we got broadband. ;)
Title: How fast was it for you?
Post by: Swoop on October 17, 2003, 07:00:05 AM: Heh, cool.

Quote
originally spewed forth by Will Riker[/B]

Television ceased to be a widespread form of entertainment in the 21st century.

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Title: How fast was it for you?
Post by: Hap on October 17, 2003, 09:42:27 AM: few mins on cable
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Post by: scJazz on October 17, 2003, 05:21:52 PM: Dunno really... pushed download got up got a beer found my ciggs sat back down and it wuz done... maybe 2 min.
Title: How fast was it for you?
Post by: medicboy on October 17, 2003, 05:34:13 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Swoop
So.....like.........you've got a 3 PC network and the whole family sits and surfs/plays/works all at the same time?

Do you still pay for a TV license or hasn't the box been on since the ADSL was installed?

PAY FOR A TV LICENSE??????????? Wtf does this mean, you guys in the UK have to pay for a tv license???????? OMFG!:eek:
Title: How fast was it for you?
Post by: Flossy on October 18, 2003, 05:09:55 AM: Quote
Originally posted by medicboy
PAY FOR A TV LICENSE??????????? Wtf does this mean, you guys in the UK have to pay for a tv license???????? OMFG!:eek:
Yeah we do.... but at least it means that some channels (BBC, the ones we pay for) don't need to run commercials to survive. :)
Title: How fast was it for you?
Post by: Swoop on October 18, 2003, 05:33:17 AM: Yeah they have these little 'detector' vans that drive around looking for addresses that havn't paid for a license and are emitting the right radiation.

:D

heh, he'll think I'm kidding won't he.....it does sound far fetched now we come to tell someone.

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Title: How fast was it for you?
Post by: Flossy on October 18, 2003, 07:34:51 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Swoop
Yeah they have these little 'detector' vans that drive around looking for addresses that havn't paid for a license and are emitting the right radiation.
Hehe.... reminds me of when Zeb used to be a TV engineer and was also very active in amateur radio. We had a mobile radio in the car and, as it was the days of horizontally-polarized AM radio, an omni-directional aerial on the car. This was a circular aerial (known affectionately as a 'halo') on a small mast, which he had attached to a single ski-rack..... a few times when he was out on his rounds, people thought his car was a TV detector van! :rofl
Title: How fast was it for you?
Post by: Nilsen on October 18, 2003, 01:50:46 PM: because i was monitoring the board ALL BLOODY DAY :D i got it in 8 mins ..

Only to find out that my puter sucks to much to try it :D
Title: How fast was it for you?
Post by: vorticon on October 18, 2003, 01:55:48 PM: same thing happened to me...what a waste of 20 minutes :p
Title: How fast was it for you?
Post by: JAWS2003 on October 18, 2003, 02:09:52 PM: :D :D :D :D

(http://www.geocities.com/fightingjaws/fast.txt)
Title: How fast was it for you?
Post by: Chaos68 on October 18, 2003, 03:03:56 PM: blank im DL it from the URL on your pic... at 368KB/sec :p :p :p

only took 8 minutes :D :D :D
Title: How fast was it for you?
Post by: airbumba on October 18, 2003, 03:12:38 PM: Quote
Originally posted by SLO
same:p

Just a little longer for me Slo. U got Videotron? If so , High Speed or Ultra HS? I use HS, can't justify the cost for the ultra HS.

Cya up there.

Baron von Bumba
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Post by: Ozark on October 18, 2003, 03:41:11 PM: I'm almost done... 5 more minutes.
Title: How fast was it for you?
Post by: jonnyb on October 18, 2003, 05:25:20 PM: Quote
Originally posted by medicboy
PAY FOR A TV LICENSE??????????? Wtf does this mean, you guys in the UK have to pay for a tv license???????? OMFG!:eek:

Um....it's called cable television here in the US...and we still have to suffer through the commercials :)
Title: How fast was it for you?
Post by: Swoop on October 19, 2003, 06:13:58 AM: not quite.

See......we also have cable TV and satellite TV that have adverts and you have to pay for them. We also have channel you don't have to pay for (ITV and Channel 4) that have adverts. Then there's BBC1 & BBC2 which have no adverts but we have to pay for a TV license, we don't get a choice over this, even if you never ever watch the BBC you've still gotta pay for a license. This goes to the gov which in turn pay for the BBC.

There's more.

We've also got digital channels like BBC3, BBC4 and channel 5, some of which have adverts, some dont, some you need to pay for as well (plus the license in the first place) and they're all rubbish anyway.

Look at it this way, if it wasn't for 30 million Brits paying for TV licenses you Yanks wouldn't have great shows like Red Dwarf to watch.

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Title: How fast was it for you?
Post by: gunnss on October 19, 2003, 09:50:11 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Swoop
not quite.

Look at it this way, if it wasn't for 30 million Brits paying for TV licenses you Yanks wouldn't have great shows like Red Dwarf to watch.

(http://image1ex.villagephotos.com/extern/640697.jpg)

Yeah we get Red Dwarf on PBS with no commercials but we also get inundated with the "whining for dollars" marathon at least twice a year and some times more often, where they innterupt the program even more frequantly than advertisments would.

Gunns
Title: How fast was it for you?
Post by: Blank on October 19, 2003, 02:00:38 PM: Quote
blank im DL it from the URL on your pic... at 368KB/sec

my pictures a lie, actually took about 7 mins to downloads so had spare time to mess around in photoshop.

(http://www.blankfish.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/images/smilies/cackle.gif) (http://www.blankfish.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/images/smilies/biggrin.gif)

(http://www.blankfish.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/images/smilies/beer.gif)
Title: How fast was it for you?
Post by: JAWS2003 on October 19, 2003, 02:38:32 PM: II knew something is wrong with the numbers there, but you got us.:lol
But mine is clean::D
(http://www.geocities.com/fightingjaws/test.txt)
Title: How fast was it for you?
Post by: Swoop on October 20, 2003, 05:28:16 AM: Blank,

heh....ok, i wasn't gonna post this cos it's just rampant chest thumping (um....in a nerdy way) but since you cheated:

(http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-5/48257/speeed.jpg)

And no, it's not edited in any way so nur :p

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Post by: Zanth on October 20, 2003, 09:16:51 AM: Why clutter up your system with a download manager when you have broadband?
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Post by: Ghosth on October 20, 2003, 09:21:46 AM: Beats me
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Post by: Curval on October 20, 2003, 11:52:02 AM: look...it was really fast okay! I just got back from being away for four days and I was really in the mood...and well...

ummm...oooops...sorry, thinking about something else.
Title: How fast was it for you?
Post by: Deth7 on October 20, 2003, 11:52:53 AM: 7 minutes with DSL
Title: How fast was it for you?
Post by: Russian on October 20, 2003, 02:02:36 PM: 1.97Mb/sec :D :cool:
Title: How fast was it for you?
Post by: Russian on October 20, 2003, 02:14:09 PM: Hmmmmm.........

Quote

2003-10-20 15:13:01 EST: 11703 / 4439
Your download speed : 11703462 bps, or 11703 kbps.
A 1428.6 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 4439511 bps, or 4439 kbps.
Seems like broadband .. above the 1mbit barrier!

:lol