MacRumors at 75 Mph!

[G5orbust]

Originally posted by Choppaface


then how can i get 10kilobyte/sec download on my 56k dialup?

yeah, sying taht there are 8 bits in a byte and the government limits dl speeds to a max of 53Mbps on a 56Mbps modem

 

[King Cobra]

I've gotten a solid 11 to 12KB/s on my 28.8Kb dial-up for minutes with longer downloads. I think that 28.8Kb is supposed to be an average, and that it can go faster. Transfers may go faster because of zero/extremely minimal traffic on a server.

Don't quote me on this, though.

 

[sandercox]

Downloads can probably be that high when you're downloading text like documents. Its due to compression that normaly runs over the line which can speed up the download of uncompressed files.