[koenfucius]

Originally Posted by solaris

This is the download speed I get from Soundsbox too - and I sit on a more than 3 times as fast a connection, as you do (which yet again goes to show that your connection is depending a lot on the upload speed of the site you're downloading from )

I sometimes get +1000 kbps on Legalsounds but rarely more than 250 kbps on MP3Sparks/allTunes.

Do you mean kilobits per second or kiloBytes per second? I am downloading an album from Alltunes right now, at around 110 kBytes/s (which is about 1100 kbits per second).

[solaris]

Originally Posted by koenfucius

Do you mean kilobits per second or kiloBytes per second? I am downloading an album from Alltunes right now, at around 110 kBytes/s (which is about 1100 kbits per second).

Sorry, about the confusion - but off course I meant +1000 KB per second on Legalsounds. One track takes 4-6 seconds to download depending on the size of it.

I noticed that you use a small k and a capital B but when I download something from Legalsounds or MusicMP3, the download manager uses capital K and capital B, while it downloads

[aom3]

Dave who is your provider, because alot of isp's throttle speeds during the day and then lift off after 10pm or 11pm till 6am. Its a 'fair usage' method that isp's take to ensure that heavy downloaders don't hog the network

[koenfucius]

Originally Posted by solaris

Sorry, about the confusion - but off course I meant +1000 KB per second on Legalsounds. One track takes 4-6 seconds to download depending on the size of it.

I noticed that you use a small k and a capital B but when I download something from Legalsounds or MusicMP3, the download manager uses capital K and capital B, while it downloads

No problemo.
Legalsounds must have a really fat pipe into the internet (or very few simultaneous users ) to be able to achieve sustained rates of 1000 kB/s!

The confusion does indeed arise as a result of sloppy use of measures by people who should know better. The k/K thing is not so much a problem (k is the SI prefix denoting "1,000", K is the binary equivalent, denoting "1,024"), but the difference between "b" (bit) and "B" (byte) is typically a factor 10! Normally data transmission rates are expressed in bits/second, because the communication is serial (i.e. one bit after another).

[Dave C]

Originally Posted by aom3

Dave who is your provider, because alot of isp's throttle speeds during the day and then lift off after 10pm or 11pm till 6am. Its a 'fair usage' method that isp's take to ensure that heavy downloaders don't hog the network

I am just on a standard BT package, but I got a call from them last week asking if I wanted to have my package upgraded from the 2.2 to 'as fast as your line can handle', at no extra cost. The added bonus was my allowance was also increase for 1GB a month to 5GB a month. This is lucky as I regularly download 5GB a month, but as they have never hassled me about it, I have just kept quiet.
Cheers,
Dave C

[solaris]

Originally Posted by Dave C

I am just on a standard BT package, but I got a call from them last week asking if I wanted to have my package upgraded from the 2.2 to 'as fast as your line can handle', at no extra cost. The added bonus was my allowance was also increase for 1GB a month to 5GB a month. This is lucky as I regularly download 5GB a month, but as they have never hassled me about it, I have just kept quiet.
Cheers,
Dave C

Hi Dave.

You get restrictions on how much you must download from your ISP Fun stuff - never heard of that before

[aom3]

UK is worst for restrictions. Monthly download limits and 'fair usuage' policies are very common with uk isps. They want to stay with the worlds pace of internet speeds, but cant handle the consumers needs.

[Habylab]

Originally Posted by aom3

UK is worst for restrictions. Monthly download limits and 'fair usuage' policies are very common with uk isps. They want to stay with the worlds pace of internet speeds, but cant handle the consumers needs.

sshh you!!!
I get 8mb in the uk in 2009!

[solaris]

Originally Posted by aom3

UK is worst for restrictions. Monthly download limits and 'fair usuage' policies are very common with uk isps. They want to stay with the worlds pace of internet speeds, but cant handle the consumers needs.

Well, I'm sure it can't be all English ISP's that put restrictions on usage - so how do those that do this even survive in the competition? I know I wouldn't choose an ISP that did that - that's for sure

Evolution would/will work its wonders on this too, I would imagine.

[Dave C]

Originally Posted by solaris

Well, I'm sure it can't be all English ISP's that put restrictions on usage - so how do those that do this even survive in the competition? I know I wouldn't choose an ISP that did that - that's for sure

Evolution would/will work its wonders on this too, I would imagine.

I think it is just a case of they charge more for a package with unlimited downloads. For alot of people, they just do a bit of surfing and check e-mails so they don't care about restrictions. Also, like I said with my old package, the 1GB limit was there, but I have been ignoring it every month for atleast a year and no one has ever billed me any extra,
Cheers,
Dave C