[Godly] downloading speed.

[CrashOveride]

What gay little story?

The one in the first post about the police showing up and confiscating his laptop.

Technically possible = possible

The computer is the bottleneck when you have that kind of connection.

I could technically go to mars, see where I'm going with this?

It's not all about being able to download at that speed, you'd need someone to be uploading to you at that speed aswell...

At this moment in time it's highly unlikely that someone will just happen to have a gigabit connection and be uploading what you are downloading.

In this case it's just a glitch or photoshopped.

Crash

[thefalling]

The one in the first post about the police showing up and confiscating his laptop.

I could technically go to mars, see where I'm going with this?

It's not all about being able to download at that speed, you'd need someone to be uploading to you at that speed aswell...

At this moment in time it's highly unlikely that someone will just happen to have a gigabit connection and be uploading what you are downloading.

In this case it's just a glitch or photoshopped.

Crash

Yeah I see where your going, mars trip? I take it youve nvr heard of fiber optics, its kewl, just look it up

Think of multiple machines uploading. Think of downloading from a computer from a LAN/WAN network via fiber optics.

The internet is one big ass WAN.

[whitemist]

The one in the first post about the police showing up and confiscating his laptop.

I could technically go to mars, see where I'm going with this?

It's not all about being able to download at that speed, you'd need someone to be uploading to you at that speed aswell...

At this moment in time it's highly unlikely that someone will just happen to have a gigabit connection and be uploading what you are downloading.

In this case it's just a glitch or photoshopped.

Crash

I agree as a network admin it isnt realistically possible for you to download that fast. Any smart company would put caps on their servers plus factoring in distance and hubs your download would have to pass through it would be bloody hard to download that fast.

Also just a note fiber opt has been around for awhile its nothing new. The hubs that the majority of people here at ragezone connect to are fiber opt. For most people it goes from your house via a cable to a hub where it is than passed through fiber and back out again.

O and if that is a torrent which it probably is since your downloading windows xp the amount of connections that are uploading to you will also slow you down.

And the mars thing, he was just using an analogy you can actually go to space for a bit if you have the moeny

[Netrogor]

At this moment in time it's highly unlikely that someone will just happen to have a gigabit connection and be uploading what you are downloading.

In this case it's just a glitch or photoshopped.

Crash

Double check the first post, please? He is downloading via torrent - hence no need for somebody to have a massive upload speed on their end... a series of slow uploaders works for that. Even so, I am somewhat doubtful that there were enough uploaders seeding for him to get those speeds. -_-

[thefalling]

I agree as a network admin it isnt realistically possible for you to download that fast. Any smart company would put caps on their servers plus factoring in distance and hubs your download would have to pass through it would be bloody hard to download that fast.

Also just a note fiber opt has been around for awhile its nothing new. The hubs that the majority of people here at ragezone connect to are fiber opt. For most people it goes from your house via a cable to a hub where it is than passed through fiber and back out again.

O and if that is a torrent which it probably is since your downloading windows xp the amount of connections that are uploading to you will also slow you down.

And the mars thing, he was just using an analogy you can actually go to space for a bit if you have the moeny

Yeah i was trying to be sarcastic, I guess it didnt work. Im not denying it would be difficult, im just saying its possible, and has occurred, unlike a man stepping foot on mars.

[whitemist]

even if there were enough uploaders the download speed would still not go that high. I can see it with one or two but not more than that, receiving that many connects at that speed isn't realistic at all. bandwidth does not build well at all when you are receiving many connections. Its better to have one dedicated connection than many coming at you at once

[fuckstick]

...Attempting to maintain an overhead at that speed would crash just about any modem, especially that junk your ISP gives you.

You're not fooling anyone, gigora. That screenshot is obviously fake.

[LightWarrior]

Plus most ISP are blocking Torrents now.

[thefalling]

Well obviously that screen isnt proving anything, could be a software glitch, could be a GDI hook, or photoshop. Pick one of the 3.

[Rishwin]

I think you are mistaking what a byte is :S
A byte is 8 bits.
.

I know exactly what a bit and a byte is. What exactly are you trying to say?

If you have a 512 kilobit line, your download speed is roughly 50KB/s
If you have a 256 kilobit line, your download speed is roughly 25KB/s
If you have a 1.5 megabit line, your download speed is roughly 150KB/s
If you have a 24 megabit line, your download speed is roughly 2.4MB/s

Now go get out your calculator (if you need it) and tell me that those download speeds are not roughly 10% of the line speed.

[thefalling]

I know exactly what a bit and a byte is. What exactly are you trying to say?

If you have a 512 kilobit line, your download speed is roughly 50KB/s
If you have a 256 kilobit line, your download speed is roughly 25KB/s
If you have a 1.5 megabit line, your download speed is roughly 150KB/s
If you have a 24 megabit line, your download speed is roughly 2.4MB/s

Now go get out your calculator (if you need it) and tell me that those download speeds are not roughly 10% of the line speed.

huh?

[Rishwin]

huh?

You asked if i knew what a bit and a byte is. From the fact that you pointed out a byte is 8 bits, i assumed you were referring to the download speeds i was stating. What else were you referring to?

[Aurora]

it is possible to download insanely fast, if you download a "nulled" (fake) text file.

it could also be that your line "hickup'd" as some pointet out here and was trying to throtle down again.

[nathan123]

Plus most ISP are blocking Torrents now.

To be fair, that was worked around within about a day, theres a little box you can tick on most torrent programs now that says 'encrypt traffic' and the ISPs are not allowed to decrypt your traffic, at least not in the UK. Of course, if you are using a torrent, it's a legal file anyway, so it wouldn't even matter if you were caught doing it.

[Mr.Lucifer]

Some of the replies in this thread is seriously sad. Ever heard about torrent technology? You can get ridicolous speeds. People hogged up all the bandwidth at universities with gigabit networks with torrents back in the days when it hadn't been blocked yet.

Most ISPs don't block torrents. In some countries they do, but that's not many countries.

Yet again you are mistaking actual LINE SPEEDS with DOWNLOAD SPEEDS. The LINE speed is capable of 100 megabits per second. That makes the download speed 10 megabytes per second. Is that or is that not exactly what i just said above?

Have i ever heard of fiber? ADSL 2+ uses fiber. It is NOTHING new. What they are experimenting with is creating a gigabit infrastructure between the exchanges to create a faster network. Woopdee, we have that here, it means nothing. Will users get anywhere near that speed? Absolutely not.



You are very lost, aren't you? I really do not feel like going throgh that and pointing out all of your mistakes, there really are that many.

But the basic points:

1. No, that speed is NOT possible.

2. No, downloading above 100MB/s is not possible. You cannot even transfer something from your flash drive at that speed.

3. Download speeds don't mean crap anymore? Cancel your broadband connection with your ISP and go back to dialup. THEN tell me they don't mean crap.

100 Mbits/s is 12.5MB/s to be more precise. Nevertheless, I said it has been normal in Sweden for a while. For a while. If they wanted to they could go way higher. That gigabit internet was also to the rest of the internets via fiber, but very few places you can use all the speed. Bittorrent is "the" way you can make use of such high speeds.

Another example, they tested a new technology that let them transfer 120 mbits/s via the same thing you use to watch TV.

Some of us have harddrives with speeds over 100 megabytes per second. That's why we have raid, after all...