This Is Really Weird

[Triadcool]

I just partitioned my hard drive and made a seperate partition for downloads and I went on to suprnova and started downloading stuff to the new partition and every download is getting speeds of over 400kbs. When I usually get 100kbs average. I know the partition couldn't of sped up my downloads,but I thought it was a little weird.

[shinzuiski]

maybe its doing that same thing as when people download from shareaza and it sais 400kb but its really way slower?

or maybe a fresh install somehow uncapped your connection :P lucky cunt!

[Triadcool]

It really is going at that speed because in about 10 minutes I downloaded office 2003, and norton system works 2004.

[shinzuiski]

WHAO! like i said, lucky !

EDIT: btw, what connection speed downloads at 400kb a sec ? is it uncaped cable ?

[Evil Gemini]

Dont ask why it goes that fast. You might jinx it and then go slow again :ph34r: :lol:

[Smurfette]

Wow, that's incredible.

At 400Kb/sec you would manage 30MB in 10 minutes, whereas if you were downloading at 400KB/sec you could manage around 240MB in the same time. That's without taking packet loss and network overheads into account.
To transfer 400KBytes/sec you would need a broadband connection above 3Mb/sec.
You must be at work. :)

Note: calculations performed off the top of my head and are likely to be inaccurate lol :D

[shinzuiski]

so you cant get a residential cable or adsl acount that is able to download at over 200kb a sec im guessing ?

because you can get 2mb adsl wich is 200kb a sec isnt it ? since 1.5mb is 140kb a sec.

i have a question, might be slighty of topic, but does anyone know if 512cable is faster then 512 adsl ? or are they the same?

[Triadcool]

I have roadrunner,and yes it is cable modem. I dont know how I am downloading at these speeds but for those speeds I am paying $45 month.

[muchspl2]

ur speed at http://www.2wire.com

[shinzuiski]

oh jesus christ, that would mean its about 90$ a month in australian money hey ?

god damnit, america has such cheap internet connection, for 1.5mb adsl here it costs 143$ a month.....

god damnit.... no fair.... fkn.... austrlia, internet... so damn... fookin expensive.

[Smurfette]

well, there are 8 bits in a Byte, so 400KBytes = 3,200Kbits.
3Mbits = 3,072Kbits = 384KBytes.
I don't know whether there's anyone in the states offering 3Mb cable connections but many internet-savvy companies have faster connections - over dedicated lines, I believe.

Hey, don't quote me on that!

[shinzuiski]

so does 3mb cable connection mean you download at 3mb a sec?

so by rights that means a 512kb cable connection will download at max 512kb a sec ?.....

i wish adsl downloaded at its connection speed :(

[muchspl2]

Originally posted by muchspl2@8 November 2003 - 09:05
ur speed at http://www.2wire.com
http://members.cox.net/my_web_pictures/4335.bmp

[Triadcool]

What conection type do you have muchspl?

[shinzuiski]

did u have tomake it bmp ? dude plz make it jpg....for some reason its taking ages to load even with my dsl

[muchspl2]

i got 56k






























J/k its a cable and the node is in my front yard

[Triadcool]

lol Thats awesome.

[Smurfette]

Damn - my electric just went off. Sodding outside key meters :(


Originally posted by shinzuiski@8 November 2003 - 09:11
so does 3mb cable connection mean you download at 3mb a sec?

so by rights that means a 512kb cable connection will download at max 512kb a sec ?.....

i wish adsl downloaded at its connection speed :(
Yes, that's the theoretical max but there's also other things to take into account...
-how busy the computer the other end is (if it's busting a gut to dish out to 200 other people at the same time, it's gonna send data slower)
-'packet loss' (everything comes in packets and some of them get lost!)
-'overheads' such as the packet headers. If you download a 10MB file and the packet size is small, the header information makes it slightly longer to download the file than with larger packets... with larger packets, the header information is the same size as in the smaller packets but it impacts less because there's more of the file coming along with that header. Don't ask me about more detail than this as it's about as far as I understand LOL.