justinian on 13 March 2009
@NJ5
Yes I was exaggerating and kudos to you for not playing dumb and pretending I wasn't.
I live in the UK and I also have "16Mbit" broadband and although it is much faster than the 2mb I was using before there is no way I can download 50gb in 10hrs. At least from what I've experienced so far.
Just to download a linux OS of about 4GB almost damn near took that long.
I know there are other factors involve with the overall download speeds but 16Mbit/sec doesn't mean that it is the true download speed, it's usally a quarter of that.
I can most likely upload stuff at that speed but dowloading is a whole different matter.
Then there is also the limit some ISP/contracts place on the total GBs you can download in a week/month etc.
