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#1 todd1970

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Posted 18 September 2004 - 09:58 AM

Ok..heres one for all you pc experts out there..I have 750kbs broadband and when i was downloading windows XP-SP2 it was downloading at an avarage of 88.0kbs...came on to fruit-emu and seen some new downloads which are all most excellent ;)

So..when i started downloading from here it was giving me an avarage of 80-85kbs..whilst my other download was still going at the same speed..not that im complaining in any way..but does that mean i had bandwidth of 1.6gb..because i thought it would have split the 750kbs between the 2 downloads?? :-? any replies most welcome ty ;)
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#2 Bencrest

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Posted 18 September 2004 - 11:27 AM

On a 750kbps service, you should be able to get a maximum of something like 93.75kb/s, although that depends on loads of other factors. You say that 2 files were downloading at 80kb/s?

Which download accelerator were you using? How were you getting SP2?

You will often find that software misreports the speed of a download, normally by showing speed decreasing slowly, whereas is may have 1/2ved the speed straight away.

As a test, see if you can get it to happen again, and then double click on the two blinky blue boxes in the system tray - that shows you the actual [or as near as damnit] internet traffic, and expect the 'Received' never to jump more than 90kb in a second. Sometimes it does, you will normally find that the next second takes longer to appear :)

I once pretended I had ADSL with someone on the net when I had 56k.....basically you pause a download [I think I was using DAP], for about 15 seconds. Then, when you restart, it tends to claim it has downloaded about 100kb in the second before, and gives all king of crazy figures!

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#3 alexheard2

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Posted 18 September 2004 - 12:46 PM

Its just says that it is downloading that fast sometimes it isnt




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