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02-27-2003, 02:30 PM
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Can Fast Download Be Explained
A few weeks ago I bought a Creative Blaster 56K v.90 winmodem for $10. And it seems like sometimes my downloads are extremely fast though the modem does seem to have a habit of slowing down as it is downloading. I just now downloaded a pdf file of 391k in 1 min. 7 seconds. The speed it showed on the download was that it started at about 8.5k per second and gradually slowed down to about 6k per second at the end of the minute and 7 seconds. This still seems really fast. I don't ever remember such fast download speeds on my USR hard modem. Do other people here get these kinds of download speeds?
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02-27-2003, 02:42 PM
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Yep, my conexant winmodem download speed reaches 7 from time to time.
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02-27-2003, 04:29 PM
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Mine only reaches that speed only on rare occasions.
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02-27-2003, 09:02 PM
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it all depends on how much load is on the server that you are connected to on the web, the more load they have the slower the download will be, its a bandwith thing
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03-01-2003, 10:55 AM
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The reason it starts high and then slows down is that Windows starts to download immediately you click the link but doesn't start to time the download until you tell it where you want to save the file. You could therefore have been downloading for 30 seconds or more as you browse to the folder where you want to save the download before Windows starts to time it.
e.g 30 seconds downloading at 4KB/s = 120 KB. Windows now starts to time the downlaod and gives the rate as 120KB/s. One second later the rate would be 62KBb/s. A second later 42 KB/s etc. Therefore the larger the download the more accurate the rate will be. |
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03-01-2003, 11:40 AM
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It's also dependent on how compressible the file is - a .doc is going to appear to download a lot faster than a .zip file. Modem protocols are capable of compressing where broadband is not.
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