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262032 2004-08-15 11:55:00 What is the biggest file that you have downloaded in one go?
And the biggest you have sent ?
By dial up or broadband?

A friend told me that she would download huuuuge files all night, even before she got broadband. Then another friend emailed me today to ask if the movie I sent her (legal - I filmed a guest speaker and put it on DVD) could be emailed to Germany. Seeing that it is around 2 gigs, you can guess my reply to her. So this got me to wonder if huge files are actually sent/downloaded????
Steve_L (763)
262033 2004-08-15 11:58:00 ~ 800 MB

I left my computer downloading three or four 800MB files once... but that was on 256k.

On 56k I downloaded a 120 MB file that I remember too aaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggggggggggeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssss ssssssss. No wait, that was 28k.
Growly (6)
262034 2004-08-15 12:14:00 downloaded about 60gb off the gamesplanet ftp using dialup.

Movies,demo's,trailers,.....then i deleted 90 percent of them for extreme suckage.
metla (154)
262035 2004-08-15 12:16:00 1.7Gb MSDN Library. kiki (762)
262036 2004-08-15 12:28:00 About 1.2Gig on dialup. Did it over several nights as I couldn't use the line during the day. Did another of about 1.2Gig and I had about 300MB to go when they moved the site and killed the resume so turned out to be a waste of time. When it comes to dialup it would almost be faster to send the DVD to Germany than use dialup. mikebartnz (21)
262037 2004-08-15 12:28:00 > A friend told me that she would download huuuuge files all night, even before she got broadband. Then another friend emailed me today to ask if the movie I sent her (legal - I filmed a guest speaker and put it on DVD) could be emailed to Germany. Seeing that it is around 2 gigs, you can guess my reply to her. So this got me to wonder if huge files are actually sent/downloaded????

Depending on the length and if you used DivX compression, you could easily get that down to under 500mb with hardly any quality loss. Then if you used say Filetopia, it wouldn't take more than a week.
kiki (762)
262038 2004-08-15 14:46:00 My biggest single file is a 704MB ISO - And Ive done heaps of them!

Overnight is best, especially if one of you can setup FileZilla Server (Means you can resume and multi-thread the download and to get maximum speeds).
Chilling_Silence (9)
262039 2004-08-15 20:30:00 I'd say about a 900 megs, a um...Movie...from um...can't say...

*runs away with paranoia*
MrBeef (342)
262040 2004-08-15 22:12:00 Ummm biggest singular file would have to be 3.36Gb but when i first got DSL i downloaded about 40gb worth of Linux ISO's, patches and mods of the JSG FTP site. Mmmmmmm uncapped DSL :) Pete O'Neil (250)
262041 2004-08-15 22:20:00 600-800 meg files on dailup over 2-3 days each. mate has unlimited dailup so just lets it download over nite...takes a while but they have proberly downloaded a 4-5 gig that way recently. tweak'e (174)
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