With Lion being available via download curious to know peoples internet speeds.
ADSL2+ 12mb will take me around an hour to download.
ADSL2+ 12mb will take me around an hour to download.
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Lion, how fast is your broadband.
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My download speed is about 1.59Mbps on a good day, but there are 2 more factors that still apply:
There are many devices on my net work (about 10+ PS3 and 2 Xbox's) so the amount of a bandwidth I get is very low. e.g my PS3 is wired in and takes just under 2 hours to download about a Gb.
I also live next a university and collage, which make my internet very unreliable and internet speed takes a big hit from time to time.
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I guess that if I were to download 6Gb in one go over wifi it would take over 6 hours!
There are many devices on my net work (about 10+ PS3 and 2 Xbox's) so the amount of a bandwidth I get is very low. e.g my PS3 is wired in and takes just under 2 hours to download about a Gb.
I also live next a university and collage, which make my internet very unreliable and internet speed takes a big hit from time to time.
I guess that if I were to download 6Gb in one go over wifi it would take over 6 hours!
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Incredibly stable 1.5Mbps DSL. It's slow but dirt cheap. I'll probably download it overnight to ease the waiting.
No freaking joke. It's p.a.t.h.e.t.i.c here.Remind me to get out of US for some real internet speed
Yes, but the upload could be much more. This is my only complaint about my internet connection.
Upload is a speed I personally never pay attention to since I never upload, lol.
My Sky broadband is pretty reliable, it goes between 20mb and 14mb and very rarely drops below that. Compared to Virgin Media, who I was on before, who traffic manage and dropped my 10mb connection to 2mb between the hours of 6pm and 1am every, single day ... Sky is a great service.
All the better though given that my wife works for them, and the entire package of services is free.
Upload is a speed I personally never pay attention to since I never upload, lol.
My Sky broadband is pretty reliable, it goes between 20mb and 14mb and very rarely drops below that. Compared to Virgin Media, who I was on before, who traffic manage and dropped my 10mb connection to 2mb between the hours of 6pm and 1am every, single day ... Sky is a great service.
All the better though given that my wife works for them, and the entire package of services is free.
Upload is very important to me, as I use my Mac Pro as an FTP and VPN Server.
BT Infinity
Will also be getting around 32mb down and 6mb up in September when BT FTTC comes in my direction
until then however... stuck at 3.5mb down.
According to this I could download the install, which is estimated to be 4GB from what I have read, in about 20 minutes. These things don't really count, though. There is no way Apple's servers can pump out 30 Mb/s uploads for millions of people at the same time. I would estimate that it takes me about 30 minutes to an hour to download the installer.