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Re:Previously Downloaded OS X Installers No Longer Work by comex on Thursday March 03, 2016 @05:48PM (#11220674)
Not that that isn't awful, but 2Mbps is 4 times slower than 1MB/s...
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Re:Previously Downloaded OS X Installers No Longer Work by contingencies on Thursday March 03, 2016 @07:34PM (#11221147)
Sure. Actually we rarely get even that, except on domestic transfers. 1MB/sec is best-case, torrent-only scenario ~1-5AM. Makes you value mirror operators.
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Re:Previously Downloaded OS X Installers No Longer Work by mystikal on Thursday March 03, 2016 @10:24PM (#11221877)
Around 300 kB/sec lets you get 1GB/hour, which means you can get a perfectly watchable 1080p movie in 2 hours. Yes it's nice now that I have 3 MB/sec down, but it wasn't hell before and I lived with that for 10+ years. Many people still have this kind of connection - typically billed as 5000 down / 800 up. Streaming, I have no idea.
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Re:Previously Downloaded OS X Installers No Longer Work by contingencies on Sunday March 06, 2016 @05:32PM (#11235897)
Rest assured, I don't use the internet to download television.
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Re:Previously Downloaded OS X Installers No Longer Work by mystikal on Sunday March 06, 2016 @11:12PM (#11237055)
Oh, that's interesting. Sorry for stereotyping you as a torrent user. What kind of large files are you downloading?
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Re:Previously Downloaded OS X Installers No Longer Work by contingencies on Monday March 07, 2016 @09:12PM (#11243153)
~every nonfiction book posted.
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