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Rick McCluney
Film Handler

Posts: 66
From: Ocean Springs, MS, USA
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 05-24-2001 09:52 PM

I have a 56K modem and was wondering if it is running slow. I downloaded the large version of the Interlock video last night and it took 5hrs and 12min at an average rate of 3.44 KB/S. How does this compare with other members with 56k modems?

Rick

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Paul G. Thompson
The Weenie Man

Posts: 4718
From: Mount Vernon WA USA
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 05-24-2001 11:30 PM

That's Par up here, too.

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Josh Jones
Redhat

Posts: 1207
From: Plano, TX
Registered: Apr 2000

posted 05-24-2001 11:57 PM

on a really good day on line #2 I can maintain a 5-6 k/s download streams off napster. most other web downloads are slower. your numbers seem right.
We are getting DSL soon

Josh

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Rick McCluney
Film Handler

Posts: 66
From: Ocean Springs, MS, USA
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 05-25-2001 12:10 AM

On Napster a maintain anywhere from 1.5 to 3.5. Occasionally 4 or 5.

Rick

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Joe Redifer
You need a beating today

Posts: 12859
From: Denver, Colorado
Registered: May 99

posted 05-25-2001 01:55 AM

Didja enjoy the large video?

I usually get around 69k average. That's almost as fast as a dial up modem

The theoretical maximum download you could get off of a 56k modem would be 7k per second. But of course the FCC limits the download speed of 56k modems to 53k (because 56k is just waaaay too fast to be considered safe), and then again you never really can achieve maximum ratings anyway. So 5 to 6k would be good for a modem.

Why they even make modems able to go 56k is beyond me, since the FCC just slows it down to 53k anyway. If you have ever bypassed the FCC and downloaded at 56k, you know that it is waaay too fast and causes much destruction and death.

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Joe Schmidt
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 172
From: Billings, Montana, USA
Registered: Apr 2001

posted 05-25-2001 02:21 AM

I have cable modem service from at&t.

It is blazingly fast. Once you convert from dial-up anything you'll never want to go back.

For example, I've downloaded most of the manuals on-site here to HDD and plan later to write them on CD. The entire platter section took only about 15 minutes to catch it all and similar for the rest.

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Brad Miller
Administrator

Posts: 17775
From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99

posted 05-25-2001 08:57 AM

For those interested, Film-Tech is currently being serviced on it's own dedicated T1 line. This is why there have been no problems recently and increased speed. (It has only gone offline in the last couple of months for one evening about a week ago when some workers cut into an improperly marked underground line.) Our very own friend and forum member Scott Norwood has been maintaining the server from a couple of thousand miles away.

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