Trivia: How long will it take to dl 1 TB file on a 56K connection?

[FreshPrince]

1st person to answer correctly gets a goldstar

 

[murphy55d]

A long time.

 

[Spooner]

50 years

 

[Argo]

It's impossible. By the time you download the file the end of the world will come and you'll be burning in hell for conducting stupid experiments.

 

[wnied]

Trivia: How long will it take to dl 1 TB file on a 56K connection?

Too Long.

~wnied~

 

[StageLeft]

99 thousand and some days.

 

[Aves]

38752 hours 28 minutes 48 seconds

 

[Jzero]

I'll race you.
I'll dump to tape, transport, and re-load the same data by car. Let's see who gets done first.

What did my networking textbook say?
Oh yeah:
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes barrelling down the highway.

 

[guyver01]

Originally posted by: FreshPrince
1st person to answer correctly gets a goldstar

1 terabyte = 8589934592 Kilobits

239hr 9m 31sec or

9.958+ days

 

[StageLeft]

Oops I forgot a 60. More like what Aves2k said but I think it's around 40,000 hours.

 

[notfred]

1775.3667724868 days.

 

[Mr N8]

If you have AOL, its impossible. You would have to restart your download every 2 hours.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

What is the actual connection speed? I know it's not 56,000 bps.

In the case of mine at home, I get 24k, and DL at a rate of 2.7kB/sec after all the protocol loss and such. It would take me 11.74 years.

A guy w/ a university connection that I know managed to transfer that much every 4 months while maxing out a 10Mbit uplink. (he's since taken down the FTP server)

 

[dullard]

The fastest I can connect my 56K modems is at 48.1 kbits per second. That is 6157 bytes per second.

1 TB = 1024^4 ~= 1.1*10^12 bytes.

Divide the two and you eventually get 49607 hours = 2067 days = 5.66 years. Now realistically there will be varing traffic during that time, so a 25% extra amount of time is to be expected. Thus the realistic answer is 2584 days. I guess 7.07 years isn't too long to download one file...

Of course this assumes that the file won't be further compressed during transmission.

 

[Aves]

He didn't say dial-up, he said 56K which is attainable with a DS0.

Also the DS0 could be a point-to-point to another location and each could have just one PC, that eliminates varying traffic.

 

[lupohki]

I could hand copy the 1's and 0's faster.

 

[stebesplace]

Downloading at 2k/second. . .

120K/MIN
7200K/HOUR
172800K/DAY = 172.8 MEGS/DAY

172.8*365 = 63.072 GIGS in a year.

we need 1000 GIGS = Terra

so. . .

1000/63.072 = 15.85 Years to download on a 56k modem, 1 terrabyte of data.

-Steve

I could edit this and say that 1024 gigs = 1 terra. . .

in that case, 1024/63.072 = 16.23 years.

this is all of course assuming regular connection variation, average of 2k/sec, and on 28.8 connection even though a 56k is used, since that is still the average connection speed.

 

[dum]

5100 years, 106 days, 0.03546 seconds

 

[SgtBuddy]

I got 5.0736681907661491636732785391375 years

1TB = 1000GB = 1000000MB = 1000000000KB = 1000000000000B = 8000000000000b

Taken: 49999bps

Rounding: 1TB = 160003200sec = 2666720min = 44445hr = 1851days = 5.07yrs

Not taken: compression, parity, or retransmits

 

[VBboy]

If you want to be all smart, please specify the actual connection speed, the quality of the connection, your proximity to the TelCo, etc.

 

[Nitemare]

couple of minutes?

What single file can be 1 TB?

If it is a compressed file, could you imagine the processor and RAM strain in tring to decompress it.

 

[geno]

too damn long

 

[Argo]

5100.2 years

 

[dman]

Assuming no loss in bandwidth / packets to overhead and that 56K was the actual throughput. No compression. You have storage on the target machine to accept the file. You've got a really nice UPS setup.

I came out with ~4.5 years using 1000... = kilo/mega/giga/tera

If we are assuming 2^y for Tera then

1,099,511,627,776 for Terabyte file and 56K = 57,344bits/second

*8 = 8,796,093,022,208 terabits / 57,344 bits/s = ~153,391,689.14 seconds
=2,556,528.15 Minutes
=42,608.80 hours
=1,775.37 Days
= 253.62 weeks
=4.88 Years minimum.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: lupohki
I could hand copy the 1's and 0's faster.

I think he should get the gold star.