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

[FreshPrince]

Correct Answer is:

4 years, 357 days, 23 hrs, 24 mins, 49 secs

14 mins, 39 secs on OC-192 Droooooooool!

tool

 

[Kcin]

Um.. I think some of your calculations are a little off. Since computers use binary, it wouldn't be efficient to store data in base 10 chuncks. You'll have a lot of wasted space.

1 kByte isn't 1000 Bytes. It's 1024 Bytes (2^10 bytes)
so:

1kByte is 1024 Bytes or 2^10
1MByte is 1024 kBytes or 2^20
1GigByte is 1024 MByte or 2^30...

and so on and so on.

so a teraByte ends up being something like 1,099,511,627,776 bytes

Hope this helps.

 

[stebesplace]

Calc

Proper link. . .


anyways, i think thats bogus of a calculator. . .

56k modem: 5 millenia, 1 century, 106 days, 23 hrs, 43 mins, 54 secs

shia, and monkey's fly outa my butt


woops. . .i put 1000 not 1. . .

ohh well

 

[Aves]

Originally posted by: stebesplace
Calc

Proper link. . .


anyways, i think thats bogus of a calculator. . .

56k modem: 5 millenia, 1 century, 106 days, 23 hrs, 43 mins, 54 secs

shia, and monkey's fly outa my butt

That link gave me the answer of 4 years, 357 days, 23 hrs, 24 mins, 49 secs

 

[ElFenix]

it would take 6 minutes and 17 seconds to fill up my hard drives with an OC192 line.

of course, it would take longer than that because the hard drives can't write data that fast

but still, would be interesting.

 

[Aves]

On DWDM it would take less than 1 second.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: 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.

LMAO! That's going in the ever-growing sig.

- M4H

 

[FreshPrince]

Does anyone else think that calc I linked is wrong? Unless my math is really baaaad

doing the math out by hand, I'm getting something more like aprox 227 days

edit: nm, I forgot to multiply by 8...8 bits to a byte..duh! back to comp101

 

[stebesplace]

I belive that calculator is doing it for speeds at max. . .because if i was on 56k getting 56k connection downloadeing at 6k or 7k max or whatever, yea it would take 4 years. . .but in reality, at 56k connection only connected at 28.8 or 33.1 downloading at an average of 2k, it would be tripple that, so around 15+ years. . .thats how i calculated it out.

-stebe

 

[FreshPrince]

Originally posted by: stebesplace
I belive that calculator is doing it for speeds at max. . .because if i was on 56k getting 56k connection downloadeing at 6k or 7k max or whatever, yea it would take 4 years. . .but in reality, at 56k connection only connected at 28.8 or 33.1 downloading at an average of 2k, it would be tripple that, so around 15+ years. . .thats how i calculated it out.

-stebe

56K means constant 56K, not dial up 56K...or it's 56000 bits all the time non stop. hope this helps.

- FP

 

[Down4U]

Accounting for overhead, network response, latency, and possible disconnections.. Hmm.. Too long..

 

[VBboy]

Originally posted by: 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.

It would decompress directly to disk It doesn't need to read the entire file into memory.

 

[Down4U]

Originally posted by: VBboy

Originally posted by: 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.

It would decompress directly to disk It doesn't need to read the entire file into memory.

If you do the download with the idiotic Internet Explorer browser, you betcha it will.

 

[LordThing]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
it would take 6 minutes and 17 seconds to fill up my hard drives with an OC192 line.

of course, it would take longer than that because the hard drives can't write data that fast

but still, would be interesting.

439 Gigs?!? Is that just in 1 computer?

 

[stebesplace]

Originally posted by: FreshPrince

Originally posted by: stebesplace
I belive that calculator is doing it for speeds at max. . .because if i was on 56k getting 56k connection downloadeing at 6k or 7k max or whatever, yea it would take 4 years. . .but in reality, at 56k connection only connected at 28.8 or 33.1 downloading at an average of 2k, it would be tripple that, so around 15+ years. . .thats how i calculated it out.

-stebe

56K means constant 56K, not dial up 56K...or it's 56000 bits all the time non stop. hope this helps.

- FP

this is ghey then, nobody cares about 'what it could be if this and that were met', only about what the real world would be at 2k-5k/sec. . .

 

[GagHalfrunt]

I hope that if I ever decide to download a 1TB file over dial-up, you'd all take a few seconds away from your math to shoot me.

In fact, if you ever see me try to download ANYTHING on a dial-up connection, please hit me repeatedly with a large blunt object until I come to my senses.

 

[thereds]

Welcome to the party.

 

[Spac3d]

No time at all? It is already on his computer?

or other answer

A few minutes because he is connecting to a LAN to get it.

Spac3d

 

[dman]

Geeze, what a let down. No answer / response 'eh? = How do you keep idiots in suspense?

 

[duke]

around 50,000 hours is my guess.

 

[Aves]

Originally posted by: stebesplace

Originally posted by: FreshPrince
56K means constant 56K, not dial up 56K...or it's 56000 bits all the time non stop. hope this helps.

- FP

this is ghey then, nobody cares about 'what it could be if this and that were met', only about what the real world would be at 2k-5k/sec. . .

In the real world you can have a 56K DS0 point-to-point which is a constant 56000 bits per second. Nowhere does he say over dial-up or the Internet for that matter.

 

[Beau]

56k Dial-Up:
4 years,315 days, 8:48:9.14

T1 (1.544 Mbps):
0 years,62 days, 21:10:36.27

T3 (44.73 Mbps):
0 years,2 days, 4:5:38.74

OC-1 (51.85 Mbps):
0 years,1 days, 20:56:26.08

OC-3 (155.52 Mbps):
0 years,0 days, 14:58:59.09

OC-12 (622.08 Mbps):
0 years,0 days, 3:44:44.77

OC-24 (1.244 Gbps):
0 years,0 days, 1:49:45.21

OC-48 (2.488 Gbps):
0 years,0 days, 0:54:52.6



I made a VBS script that will determine this for you. Download it here

 

[irl33thax0r]

nifty. My response: alot of free time.

 

[godmare]

Originally posted by: 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.

ROFL!!
like pigeon lans

 

[Krk3561]

4 years, 357 days, 23 hrs, 24 mins, 49 secs

Chances are you'd get disconnected (99.999...% chance, which is equal to 100% according to those people in .999...=1 thread) before you could finish d/ling.