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BMaker11 on 20 March 2008
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disolitude said:
BMaker11 said:
wow....50 meg internet? Yeah...blu ray isn't being clipped, because I have 30 meg ResNet here at Purdue, other than DC++, my downloads from a site with a GOOD SERVER top out at about 1 mbps. Now considering that HD movies are about 5 GB.....that would take 5000 minutes.....which translates to about 3.5 days.

Now, take into consideration that my internet was relatively cheap ($65 a year) because MY SCHOOL pays for part of it. If this were a home service, then you're talking about $1000 a month. Now increase the speed to 50 meg.....yeah, I doubt Blu-ray is gonna be effected by this, especially since you're talking about Xbox live, and the PS3 has been outselling the 360

Wow...either your math is seriously wrong here or you are getting really shitty connection. 1mbps thats is about 100 -125K. At that rate you get 1 MB every 8 seconds. 5000 MB would equal 666 minutes which is 11 hours. Not 5000 hours, 3.5 days...lol.

I have a simple 8 mbps connection from rogers in canada...pay 60 bucks with tax...and I get 500K per soecond on most torrents and up to 700 K on good dedicated servers.

So 1 minute - 30 MB downloaded, 10 minutes - 300 MB, an hour - 1.8 GB, 3 hours - my 5GB movie is done :)

 

No, when I said "1 mbps" I meant, I can download 1 megabyte of data every seconds, tops. And yeah....I miffed it on the math, because I rushed my comment lol, but that's only cause I knew what gebx was trying to say was inflammatory at the least. But still, the fact is, in order to get that kind of internet speed would be damned expensive. You know that T1-T3 connections cost upwards of $1000/month, right?

And for the sake of me not sounding stupid with my original post, I never said it would take 5000 HOURS and I definately didn't equate that number to 3.5 days.