How Long??

Voltex · 23-01-2010 11:54PM #1

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 · 23-01-2010 11:57PM

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 · 23-01-2010 11:58PM

Buy things you cheap feckers.

Vinta81 · 23-01-2010 11:58PM

How big is the file?

23-01-2010 11:59PM

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 · 24-01-2010 12:00AM

Vinta81 wrote: »

How big is the file?

3.5G.B..Garmin Nuvi update

AlmightyCushion · 24-01-2010 12:03AM

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 · 24-01-2010 12:08AM

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 · 24-01-2010 12:10AM

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 · 24-01-2010 12:13AM

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:

24-01-2010 12:27AM

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 · 24-01-2010 12:34AM

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 · 24-01-2010 12:38AM

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

ejmaztec · 24-01-2010 12:41AM

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 · 24-01-2010 12:44AM

I downloaded the internet. Only took 4 months.

bonerm · 24-01-2010 01:50AM

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

ballsymchugh · 24-01-2010 01:56AM

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 · 24-01-2010 01:57AM

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

Beat that.

brummytom · 24-01-2010 02:09AM

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

Finally finished, file corrupted.

Sharpshooter · 24-01-2010 02:21AM

brummytom wrote: »

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

Finally finished, file corrupted.

They saw you coming.

Red Hand · 24-01-2010 02:23AM

Sharpshooter wrote: »

They saw you coming.

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

brummytom · 24-01-2010 02:24AM

Sharpshooter wrote: »

They saw you coming.

No one ever has

Voodu Child · 24-01-2010 02:27AM

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 · 24-01-2010 02:28AM

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 · 24-01-2010 02:29AM

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 · 24-01-2010 02:33AM

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 · 24-01-2010 02:38AM

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 · 24-01-2010 02:40AM

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 · 24-01-2010 02:40AM

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 · 24-01-2010 02:41AM

Took 3 days to come...

Damn this new modern HD Porn!

Mrmoe · 24-01-2010 02:57AM

squod wrote: »

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

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