How Long??

Voltex

What is the longest time you have spent downloading something?
Right now...Im into day 2 downloading something.....
But when you are...do you carry on roaming the net...slowing the download...or do you leave it alone and hope it goes a little quicker?

TPD

I left a large, completely legal file downloading for about 3 days once. A friend of mine used every opportunity to leech a ~5gb torrent from a single seed with a bad connection - took him about a year and a half.

That_Guy

Buy things you cheap feckers.

Vinta81

How big is the file?

About two weeks! downloading a copy of linux via an ISDN link! 64Kbs :eek:

Also about 12 hours downloading some stuff via a 1.2k dial up about 20 years ago!

Voltex

Vinta81 wrote: »

How big is the file?

3.5G.B..Garmin Nuvi update

AlmightyCushion

A couple of months. It was a fairly big file with only one seed. I thought I deleted it from utorrent as soon as I realised it only had the one seed. Only realised months later when utorrent flashed up saying it was completed.

nevaeh-2die-4

took me about 4 weeks to download all the episodes of malcom in the middle eh on itunes

my laptop wasnt on 24/7 , i say in terms of days it took a week.

Overheal

I can get 5gb in 20 mins so i dont care about your problems :pac:

back in the good old days, 15 hours for a 1.2MB ROM of an SNES game. But what a game.

Actually I cant even remember what the game was. Couldve been megaman. That was a steep phone bill though.

DanGlee

With AlphaWave EVERYTHING takes about 6 weeks to download! Don't even try to watch a YouTube video! As for streaming...whats that???


Sorry... wrong thread for this rant lol

On topic, I've often (With AlphaWave) spent upto 3 / 4 weeks downloading anything thats over 1GB in size! (With a PC on 24/7) :eek:

Spent a few weeks downlaoding a 35G file which only ahd 1 or 2 seeders at the best of times. Was worth it in the end though. I've waited weeks to get my hands on an obscure film or show and as mcuh as I hate the waiting the sense of delayed gratification is immense once you watch the bloody thing.

Ruu_Old

Several days on 56k downloading a music video file (I had paused and resumed a number of times), ended up the zip file being corrupted.

Bajingo

About four hours downloading spiderman 3...may not be a long time...but it was probably the biggest waste of time..

ejmaztec

Ruu wrote: »

Several days on 56k downloading a music video file (I had paused and resumed a number of times), ended up the zip file being corrupted.

Those halcyon days:eek:. Someone wanted the old "Saturday Night" Whigield? song downloaded a few years ago on dialup and it took about a day. When it was played, it was the Chinese version.:(

CrazyRabbit

I downloaded the internet. Only took 4 months.

bonerm

16 months downloading a particular tv show (computer left on more or less 24/7/365).

ballsymchugh

ejmaztec wrote: »

Those halcyon days:eek:. Someone wanted the old "Saturday Night" Whigield? song downloaded a few years ago on dialup and it took about a day. When it was played, it was the Chinese version.:(

don't pretend you're not sure of the song or who sung it.. we all know it's your favourite song ever and it's the theme tune to the your biographical movie..

oh, and 3 weeks for a 35 GB file last march. prob the best wait ever.

Red Hand

Eh...I think the longest time was about 20 minutes for some security program, McAfee.

Beat that.

brummytom

Spent about 4/5 hours downloading a porn that I really wanted.


Finally finished, file corrupted.

Sharpshooter

brummytom wrote: »

Spent about 4/5 hours downloading a porn that I really wanted.


Finally finished, file corrupted.

They saw you coming.

Red Hand

Sharpshooter wrote: »

They saw you coming.

*Pulls webcam off computor top in panic* :eek:

brummytom

Sharpshooter wrote: »

They saw you coming.

No one ever has

Voodu Child

Back in the days when people used torrents I probably spent a few weeks downloading some HD movie or something. Thats years ago though.

Red Hand

Jeremiah 33 3 wrote: »

*Pulls webcam off computor top in panic* :eek:

brummytom wrote:

No one ever has

Oh yes they can, for a mere €19.99! See above webcam! Now for sale!

squod

Voodu Child wrote: »

Back in the days when people used torrents I probably spent a few weeks downloading some HD movie or something. Thats years ago though.

What I was gonna say, who the fuhk uses torrents anymore?

ScumLord

Ah lord Jesus, I remember the day when ye did have to use a download manager to get anything over 5mb down in one sitting. Mp3s used to take the best part of an hour to download, by jaysus you'd make sure what your downloading was worth listening to back then by god.

ejmaztec

brummytom wrote: »

Spent about 4/5 hours downloading a porn that I really wanted.


Finally finished, file corrupted.

Fate decided to corrupt the porn instead of letting the porn corrupt you.:P

brummytom

ejmaztec wrote: »

Fate decided to corrupt the porn instead of letting the porn corrupt you.:P

I'm not corrupted!


Ok, when I saw the title of this thread I did think "7 inches"...

El Siglo

I think is was a couple of months (about 3 or 4), it was either all of the episodes of Trailer Park Boys or 21 James Bond films (yeh I know, but they remind me of my childhood!).:D

ciano1

Took 3 days to come...

Damn this new modern HD Porn!

Mrmoe

squod wrote: »

What I was gonna say, who the fuhk uses torrents anymore?

Sharing is caring, viva la resistance!!

Cianos

Rapidshare > Torrents btw

ScumLord

Torrents are syhte. The ninjas and stagevu provide the best service.

Senna

I remember staying at the computer for hours downloading an album from Napster, each song took about 30 minutes and i couldn't use the internet while downloading.

BaconZombie

I grow up in the days of 9600bps modems so, Doom update download was ~2 weeks 6 days to download.......

Voltex wrote: »

What is the longest time you have spent downloading something?
Right now...Im into day 2 downloading something.....
But when you are...do you carry on roaming the net...slowing the download...or do you leave it alone and hope it goes a little quicker?

This was a 1.9MiB download.......

The Perfect Drug wrote: »

I left a large, completely legal file downloading for about 3 days once. A friend of mine used every opportunity to leech a ~5gb torrent from a single seed with a bad connection - took him about a year and a half.

Voltex wrote: »

3.5G.B..Garmin Nuvi update

citizen_p

abot 36 hours....

minidazzler

brummytom wrote: »

Spent about 4/5 hours downloading a porn that I really wanted.


Finally finished, file corrupted.

in soviet Russia, porn corrupts you!

squod

Mrmoe wrote: »

Sharing is caring, viva la resistance!!

Says the last person who uses torrents to share stuff. Torrenting died many years ago. Get yourself a bluddy share account.

ejmaztec

ballsymchugh wrote: »

don't pretend you're not sure of the song or who sung it.. we all know it's your favourite song ever and it's the theme tune to the your biographical movie..

oh, and 3 weeks for a 35 GB file last march. prob the best wait ever.

OK, I'll own up, I felt sorry for her. Her Saturday Nights seemed to be made up of her getting tarted up and then not actually going anywhere, a bit like her post one-hit career.:P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI6KTW0Z-4Y

ChocolateSauce

21 days. IT was a slow downloading 20 GB file.

ejmaztec

There are the odd files that take literally an eternity, and are never finished. I found the one and only torrent for a 600mb file that I was looking for, and didn't notice, until I reached 98%, that the other 20 or 30 people all had 98%. The one with the 100% had fecked off, and never came back, despite my waiting three weeks - bastard!:(

Holsten

Last night, 6.7 Gigs.

Took about 6 hours.

entropi

A paltry 14 or so hours compared to some of you...downloading an online game and patches.

cian1500ww

About 8 hours downloading about 5 games from Steam.

AckwelFoley

a .jpg image of my penis would take 67 years to download.

entropi

invalidusername wrote: »

a .jpg image of my penis would take 67 years to download.

What backward county are you in to be getting speeds that low?:p

consultech

Back in the good ol days of 56k, downloadin durty videos (based on description alone) on kazaa lyte (p2p) - I once waited 36 hours for the "Pammy and Tommy Lee" sex tape.

When it was finally finished I closed the curtains and threw it on. What insued was a middle aged man sitting in a chair for about 20 mins reading a paper, occasionally looking up to the camera and saying things like: "This has gotta be fairly frustrating... how long did this take to download" etc etc.

:mad::mad::mad:

Sea Sharp

Hah, back then I can remember plugging in the 56k modem trying to download 100MBs. You'd have to leave the computer on all night.

These days a TV show season is usually more than 5GB.
When I get a slow download rate it can take up to three weeks to download a full season. I just leave it downloading in the background.

ScumLord

consultech wrote: »

Back in the good ol days of 56k, downloadin durty videos (based on description alone) on kazaa lyte (p2p) - I once waited 36 hours for the "Pammy and Tommy Lee" sex tape.

When it was finally finished I closed the curtains and threw it on. What insued was a middle aged man sitting in a chair for about 20 mins reading a paper, occasionally looking up to the camera and saying things like: "This has gotta be fairly frustrating... how long did this take to download" etc etc.

:mad::mad::mad:

I got something along the same lines except instead of seeing Brittany Spears I was shown a man nailing his balls to a table.

electrogrimey

consultech wrote: »

Back in the good ol days of 56k, downloadin durty videos (based on description alone) on kazaa lyte (p2p) - I once waited 36 hours for the "Pammy and Tommy Lee" sex tape.

When it was finally finished I closed the curtains and threw it on. What insued was a middle aged man sitting in a chair for about 20 mins reading a paper, occasionally looking up to the camera and saying things like: "This has gotta be fairly frustrating... how long did this take to download" etc etc.

:mad::mad::mad:

The fuck is this in bold? Has Frada learned to throw his voice?