13 replies to this topic

[JamesPickens]

Thats so fucked up beyond belief. and other stuff was downloading at 300kb/s on AOL 8.0 Dial Up and i dont got any accelorators or anything

[Adrian]

Something like that happened to me before. When i had dialup! (i am on ADSL 512k now) Normally stugg would downlaod @ 3kb per sec but it was downloading at 10kb pers sec.

-rodersrimble

[Unreal]

its most likely actually downloading at dialup speed, just displaying the figures wrong, this happend to me alot, it said i was downaloading at 100mb/s when it was downloading at about 5k/s

[JamesPickens]

erm yet it was done in the time it said it would take for that speed, trust me it wasnt going at dial up rate lol

[Adrian]

Yup. What addiction said. It wasnt going at dailup speed when I did it.

-rodersrimble

[Unreal]

but isnt that actualy impossible since a 56k modern cant handle such speeds in the first place?

[JamesPickens]

hell if i know =\ my comp is so fucked i dont even know lol

[Faken]

Are you sure you didn't just download something you already had in your cache?

Faken

[Jamie Huskisson]

Unreal, on Oct 8 2004, 05:12 PM, said:

but isnt that actualy impossible since a 56k modern cant handle such speeds in the first place?

its possible with a screw driver and alot of fire proofing

[JamesPickens]

i duno faken maybe, but it never goes that fast and recently its been doing 300kb/s and i know if it continues to, even tho it slowly declines .1kb/s every like 10 seconds or so, my modem may blow. cause i got a bigger modem than needed dialup but iduno what it can handle n most dial up ones can only handle 100kb/s

[ronson]

not entirely true Jay i think there is something you can do with your COM port im not sure

[JamesPickens]

still i dont know how my comp is handling it or well my modem or anything else.

[cenithx]

It is totally impossible for your dialup to run any faster than 56kb/s.. doesn't matter how "l33t" you might be messing with com port settings and modem init lines and all the rest of that crap people boast about.

Why? Because not only is YOUR modem capped at 56kb/s, but the modem you dial into at your ISP is also just a basic 56kb/s modem, and even if you "modify" your end, the ISP's end is a stock standard 56k modem that couldn't possibly send stuff to you any faster than 56kb/s..

To top it off.. even a 56kb/s modem can't send at an actual rate of 56kb per second.. in reality you can't really get much faster than 10kb/s even in optimal conditions due to all sorts of factors.

Possible answers:

1. The counter messed up (extremely unlikely, almost impossible)
2. You photoshopped the image.
3. The download was cached (most likely)

(broadband can't even transfer data at the speeds in that image.. )

[theguid]

Yeah, in that pic it's showing 27,000 Kb/s...not b/s, which is impossible for anything lower than an OC12 probably. I have a modified cable connection that benchmarks faster than T1 but the very best it's EVER done is a sustained 400k/s pulling 6 threads at one time from newsgroups (normally it stays right at 300k/s)...and that's still a whole freakin lot slower than your 27539. At that speed the file you downloaded would have finished in less than half a second