Re:Apple's iCloud+ “VPN”
by vultour on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @05:42PM
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13GB would take less than 20 minutes at 100Mbps. Regardless, I’m not sure why you only consider near instant downloads “sensible”. I often spent several days downloading things when I was younger.
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Re:Apple's iCloud+ “VPN”
by chrisfinazzo on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @07:57PM
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Not so fast.
Yes, 100Mbps is ~12.5 MB/s, however when I initially tried the .mp4 link I found actual speeds to be much less, (hence the hours long wait I mentioned) so there's definitely throttling going on somewhere.
Also, don't count your chickens before they hatch. I remember downloading Flight Simulator 2002 mods over a 56K modem in my youth - anything over 10MB was a stretch - and I didn't actually have a broadband connection until I went off to college in 2005.