Author Topic: MY DOWNLOAD RATE!!!OMG! (Read 4776 times)

ds dude · « **on:** July 17, 2006, 07:12:00 pm »

I have some disturbing news.i have dial up as you all know and its download rate SHOULD be 56 kb/sec but wehn i download its download rate is 2 kb/sec now thats really messed up.i deleted 90 junky files and still its 2 kb/sec is there something wrong here??

A · « **Reply #1 on:** July 17, 2006, 07:21:39 pm »

56k is 56 kilobites, not kilobytes. That translates to around 5 kilobytes, but usually its normal to stay at 2. Sorry, you're out of luck.

I fear I may have gotten the two words spelled wrong, but you get the picture.

n00bface · « **Reply #2 on:** July 17, 2006, 07:23:39 pm »

that's kilobits per second, not kilobytes. there are 8 bits in a byte, so 56 divided by 8 is 7. it's normal to get 2, BECAUSE YOU SUCK!

ds dude · « **Reply #3 on:** July 17, 2006, 07:39:53 pm »

wow ok sory

jrgp · « **Reply #4 on:** July 17, 2006, 08:19:02 pm »

You should really upgrade to dsl.

You can get bellsouth fast acces for like $20 per month.

ds dude · « **Reply #5 on:** July 17, 2006, 08:27:36 pm »

yes but isnt cable pretty fast not super super fast but enough to atleast download 100mb in like 2hr instead of waiting for 2 days to download

Wraithlike · « **Reply #6 on:** July 17, 2006, 08:37:05 pm »

That sucks dsdude, whe I had 56k I still downloaded at like 7-15kbps. Not I have DSL and I have a rate of anywhere from 42-500kbps.

A · « **Reply #7 on:** July 17, 2006, 08:53:27 pm »

yeah I had 56k until I moved 2 years (wow, only two years) ago, and it completely sucked. Occasionally I'll end up on dial up again and it drives me crazy. It's like watching regular TV after getting tivo.

Mistercharles · « **Reply #8 on:** July 17, 2006, 09:04:56 pm »

Quote from: ds dude on July 17, 2006, 08:27:36 pm

yes but isnt cable pretty fast not super super fast but enough to atleast download 100mb in like 2hr instead of waiting for 2 days to download

100mb on a 2kbps connection == 14.2 hours, not 2 days.
100mb on a 20kbps connection == 1.4 hours.
100mb on a 100kbps connection == 17 minutes, not two hours.
100mb on a 300kbps connection == less than 7 minutes.

Dascoo · « **Reply #9 on:** July 17, 2006, 09:16:14 pm »

Guys is 74kps bad?

FliesLikeABrick · « **Reply #10 on:** July 17, 2006, 09:25:05 pm »

Quote from: Dascoo on July 17, 2006, 09:16:14 pm

Guys is 74kps bad?

pretty close to bad, yeah

Eagles_Arrows · « **Reply #11 on:** July 17, 2006, 10:04:57 pm »

I miss my Comcast.

Milkman Dan · « **Reply #12 on:** July 17, 2006, 11:07:39 pm »

HAHAHAHAHA

Who the hell questioned if I would get laid AFTER this guy, I mean seriously...

Camping_carl · « **Reply #13 on:** July 17, 2006, 11:49:13 pm »

Quote from: n00bface on July 17, 2006, 07:23:39 pm

that's kilobits per second, not kilobytes. there are 8 bits in a byte, so 56 divided by 8 is 7. it's normal to get 2, BECAUSE YOU SUCK!

that made me laugh

2big4u · « **Reply #14 on:** July 18, 2006, 12:31:31 am »

Quote from: Mistercharles on July 17, 2006, 09:04:56 pm

Quote from: ds dude on July 17, 2006, 08:27:36 pm
yes but isnt cable pretty fast not super super fast but enough to atleast download 100mb in like 2hr instead of waiting for 2 days to download
100mb on a 2kbps connection == 14.2 hours, not 2 days.
100mb on a 20kbps connection == 1.4 hours.
100mb on a 100kbps connection == 17 minutes, not two hours.
100mb on a 300kbps connection == less than 7 minutes.

i have dialup its at 4kbps it still takes more than 14 hrs!

Mistercharles · « **Reply #15 on:** July 18, 2006, 12:35:00 am »

Quote from: Milkman Dan on July 17, 2006, 11:07:39 pm

HAHAHAHAHA

Who the hell questioned if I would get laid AFTER this guy, I mean seriously...

Hey, if Kinky Noob beat you to it, you never know.

-Vis- · « **Reply #16 on:** July 18, 2006, 12:08:34 pm »

I remember the 56k days... I always had about 5kb/second downloads... I guess your connection just sucks dsdude

FliesLikeABrick · « **Reply #17 on:** July 18, 2006, 12:41:13 pm »

it is because AOL is the worst dial-up provider so you get bad download speeds, even for dial-up.

Mistercharles · « **Reply #18 on:** July 18, 2006, 12:52:53 pm »

AOL makes me laugh. When I had it, it usually stayed at a steady 2,KBps, occaisionally dropping to 768,Bps (BYTES per second!). Meanwhile, my friends, who had Earthlink and the like complained about their "slow" 16KBps connection. If that's bad enough, AOL also installs a crapload of useless shit onto your computer, thus slowing it down significantly and always eating 35MB of RAM (which, in the 64MB RAM days, was a shitload).

Get fucking Earthlink or something already.

bja888 · « **Reply #19 on:** July 18, 2006, 02:09:04 pm »

Hail satellite Internet!

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