RedM Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 As per the title how long will it take to download 12gb worth of data on a 4mb service? I've tried online calculators but they vary wildly from about 6hrs to 210 days! It's on Steam as well which, IIRC, doesn't tell you how long the download has left. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geo Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 5-6 hours seems about right on a 4mb line dude Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManwithSupra Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 It all depends on your actual speed, if its a 4Mb line it does not mean you will get 4Mb download speed. To get an idea pop onto speedtest.net and get a download speed reading, that will give you more an idea of what you are actually likely to get. Looks like this... (This is a reading from my work internet) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geo Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 It all depends on your actual speed, if its a 4Mb line it does not mean you will get 4Mb download speed. To get an idea pop onto speedtest.net and get a download speed reading, that will give you more an idea of what you are actually likely to get. Looks like this... (This is a reading from my work internet) http://www.speedtest.net/result/1090477077.png i dont trust these TBH. its says i get 7mb, but i know for a fact i get 10mb on download speeds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pistonbroke Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 22mb upload?!?....nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted December 30, 2010 Author Share Posted December 30, 2010 Thanks Geo. Fair too long in my opinion. I can drive into town, park up, walk to the store, pay the same price, walk back to the car, drive home, install it from disk and then only have to download the 5gb of DLC in less than 6hrs. Richard: Speednet always reads under what I actually get when I download. It just said 3.6 but when I tried to download a large file I got 4.3 and that is what I usually get. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManwithSupra Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 i dont trust these TBH. its says i get 7mb, but i know for a fact i get 10mb on download speeds. True i always get readings lower than what i usually get too, but it’s not too bad to get an idea on speed download especially if you are looking at worse case. It does also depend on the server providing the data as well as the location. If their datacenter is getting hammered for a popular download then their bandwidth is going to be restricted at their end, it does not happen very often but sometimes it does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManwithSupra Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 22mb upload?!?....nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRalphMan Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 Willy Wave... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManwithSupra Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 http://www.speedtest.net/result/1090501616.png willy wave... Beat you on your ping... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monsween Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 Surely 5-6 hours isn't a bad wait for a game? Just leave it running and it'll be done when its done PS I win Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManwithSupra Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 Surely 5-6 hours isn't a bad wait for a game? Just leave it running and it'll be done when its done PS I win http://www.speedtest.net/result/1090519174.png http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/13242/2010/03/340x_7c99ddb11c18e5c3f4.jpg I do hope your not paying for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monsween Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/13242/2010/03/340x_7c99ddb11c18e5c3f4.jpg I do hope your not paying for that. On the contrary, im getting paid to use it...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pistonbroke Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 I've got virgins 50mb connection, which actually is 50mb's. I'm in their test group though for the 100mb roll out.........bring it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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