Incidentally, as an Aussie, what's the best download rate you've ever had?
Using BT on what is claimed to be an 18Mbps connection (so says the little icon thingy in my icon tray), I'm getting 6Kbps. I don't think I've ever gotten over 25Kbp using an interruptible program like Get Right. Although earlier tonight, I did a download of caps and it managed about 100Kbps - that was using the 'download manager' of Firefox though.
I thought this was normal, until I realised that my friends in the US have been downloading items that take me 5 hours in 20 mins. It can't just be the physical distance of the line...can it?
The advantage of downloading what I'm downloading (eps that won't show in Oz for another six months and even then it's iffy) is that in the days after the eps screen, there's a lot of seeds.
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Using BT on what is claimed to be an 18Mbps connection (so says the little icon thingy in my icon tray), I'm getting 6Kbps. I don't think I've ever gotten over 25Kbp using an interruptible program like Get Right. Although earlier tonight, I did a download of caps and it managed about 100Kbps - that was using the 'download manager' of Firefox though.
I thought this was normal, until I realised that my friends in the US have been downloading items that take me 5 hours in 20 mins. It can't just be the physical distance of the line...can it?
The advantage of downloading what I'm downloading (eps that won't show in Oz for another six months and even then it's iffy) is that in the days after the eps screen, there's a lot of seeds.