Downloads (was: May the 4ths be with you)

[Mike Kurta]

    Hi Guys:
    FYI, should you want to check the speed of your computer downloading, my
ISP serviceman says to click on www.toast.net/performance .  Its a free
service that will tell you if your particular type of connection whether it
be dial-up, digital or cable is within normal limits of download speed for
that type.  It really works....
    Mike Kurta
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don" <pianotuna@accesscomm.ca>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 1:42 PM
Subject: Re: Downloads (was: May the 4ths be with you)


> Hi Bill,
>
> I have a standard cable modem and it took a *long* time to do the file
> transfer--about 11 hours. Patience is a virtue??? *grin* I have had
> downloads at 110 k/s
>
> At 01:09 PM 8/25/02 -0400, you wrote:
> >At 12:22 AM -0600 8/25/02, Don wrote:
> >>Both sizes of files are commonly transferred at winmx. The largest one I
> >>have downloaded was 690 megs. 4.6 megs is usually with the 6 meg limit
of
> >>most isp email boxes--so long as you have it cleared out regularly. I
agree
> >>that 41.6 megs would "try" most email systems however. The 41.6 meg file
> >>coud also be transfered at icq or at the #pianotech chat line on
Starlink.
> >
> >The largest file I ever downloaded is 32.9 (the Quicktime trailer for
> >the movie, "The Others"). I have a DSL connection, and the fastest
> >download time I ever noticed was 74k/sec. With a 56K modem and a
> >dial-up connect the best I ever saw was 48k. The download time would
> >run 7:24 at best, 11:26 at best with the 56K modem.
> >
> >What's your connection, and how fast could it bring done a 690MB
> >file? (I want one....)
> >
> >Bill Ballard RPT
> >NH Chapter, P.T.G.
> >
> >"Woh"
> >     ...........Keanu Reeves in "The Matrix"
> >+++++++++++++++++++++
> >
> >
>
> Regards,
> Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T.
>
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