UPDATED WITH NEW FILE! How fast can you download this 20MB file?

[alien886]

212kb/sec

Total Time: 1:21

 

[zimu]

must have a bottleneck somewhere... if i run bandwidth tests on other sites i get 600-700 kb/s, but with this file i'm only getting 65.2.... weird.

 

[troglodytis]

5min 7sec

66.7 kBps

 

[Krk3561]

411KB/s

 

[goblue420]

385 kb/sec on comcast, wait till i get back to school and i will try it on my .edu, nice server btw

 

[UptheMiddle]

Wouldn't the download speeds depend on several factors (ISP load, your servers "load" - these being related to peak hours)?

Downloaded in 1 min, 0 sec at 341Kb/sec using WideOpenWest

 

[Nelmster]

1 minute, 33 seconds.

220 KB/sec

 

[thereaderrabbit]

it starts at >400kb/sec, then bottoms out near 350kb/sec.

 

[UptheMiddle]

Originally posted by: thereaderrabbit
it starts at >400kb/sec, then bottoms out near 350kb/sec.

Mine follows that same pattern. Actually, it starts off faster and creaps down for nearly any download I do. Does anybody know why some downloads are like that?

 

[xxAgentCowxx]

57 sec
359 kb/s

 

[alocurto]

594

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

1 min 0 sec

finished at 341 kb/sec (right around the cap on my cable)

btw, what did I just download?

 

[Bryophyte]

Not even gonna try. My fastest connection is 24k (modem). Downloads this big take hours.

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: GtPrOjEcTX
1 min 0 sec

finished at 341 kb/sec (right around the cap on my cable)

btw, what did I just download?

Rename the file anything.exe and you'll see.

 

[UptheMiddle]

Oh, that's not very risky!!! lol
Should we disable our anti-virus prior to running said executable file - simply to improve the files performance?

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

Originally posted by: MonkeyDriveExpress

Originally posted by: GtPrOjEcTX
1 min 0 sec

finished at 341 kb/sec (right around the cap on my cable)

btw, what did I just download?

Rename the file anything.exe and you'll see.

this will install @home client software for Windows 95/NT - Version 1.2.

gotcha.

 

[UptheMiddle]

I'm sure you're not lying, but, I wonder who's gonna be brave enough to try running it as an executable?!
I would, but I'm too busy!

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

Originally posted by: UptheMiddle
I'm sure you're not lying, but, I wonder who's gonna be brave enough to try running it as an executable?!
I would, but I'm too busy!

no faith in RossMAN eh? he's a good guy, and wouldn't screw us over like that.

by the way, I did run it.

 

[cyberizer9]

143KB/Sec. Verizon.

 

[joeryu]

250 kB/sec

 

[MrScott81]

impressive speeds....1.70MB/sec (finished in 14 seconds):
bash-2.03$ wget -o output.txt http://www.simpli.biz/download.dat

===output.txt===

--04:06:32-- http://www.simpli.biz/download.dat
=> `download.dat'
Resolving www.simpli.biz... done.
Connecting to www.simpli.biz[208.185.243.50]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 20,989,433 [text/plain]
.....
04:06:46 (1.70 MB/s) - `download.dat' saved [20989433/20989433]

====end of output.txt===

 

[Golgatha]

160k/sec average or just under 2min total for download.

 

[StarTech]

385KBps

 

[mindless1]

357KBps, but another server I can usually get [slightly over 400KB from] was @ 380KB, so there's a bit of congestion right now.

 

[UptheMiddle]

Originally posted by: GtPrOjEcTX

Originally posted by: UptheMiddle
I'm sure you're not lying, but, I wonder who's gonna be brave enough to try running it as an executable?!
I would, but I'm too busy!

no faith in RossMAN eh? he's a good guy, and wouldn't screw us over like that.

by the way, I did run it.

I don't know very many people in here yet! Just joined last month....