4Mb line with OpenWeb Local

[GRIMREEAPER]

K, Im thinking about Upgrading to a 4mb line, but i just wanted to know from the guys who have them, using an OpenWeb Local account, what speeds do you get when Downloading of the local News servers?

 

[Syndyre]

Well I've got Openweb uncapped but it should be the same for local and with cached content I often used to get 430kb/s off the IS news server, haven't used it in a while though.

 

[Napalm]

yeah, downloading from local News servers......

U prolly wanna get those 30gig local only accounts??


Well the IS news server isn't blazingly fast on non-cached stuff (meaning stuff that other people haven't downloaded yet.. new data)

Most ppl get around 15-30kb per second on uncached stuff, but cached stuffs run at full line speed. Around 400kb per second on 4mbit line.


But even on a average of 20kb per second u can do around 1.7gigs per day (20kb x 60seconds x 60 minutes = 1hours worth of downloads *72mb per hour*)

So a 30gig local only account won't last u 30days then hehe.. So even on 512K line u'll need 2x 30gig local only accounts. On a 4mbit line, your usage is gonna be that much more.. maybe one account per week

 

[dabouncer]

Well if u find 24 hours worth of cached content you'll need a 30gb account per day!

 

[krycor]

But even on a average of 20kb per second u can do around 1.7gigs per day (20kb x 60seconds x 60 minutes = 1hours worth of downloads *72mb per hour*)

I'd say more like 15kB/s avg i've noticed so 54MB/hr which makes it 1.3GB/day or 39GB/30 days on un-cached things. Good to see i'm not the only number cruncher working out things

I'm curious though, how much GB of storage they have in the cache? anyone know or can estimate?

 

[killadoob]

grimmy if you download stuff that alot of ppl dont have, its pointless having a 4 meg line

if you download alot of stuff that locals use then its going to fly big time

 

[GRIMREEAPER]

Yeah, i figured that, I actually have one PC just downloading 24/7 none stop that PC does nothing else but D/L

Thanks for the input guys

4mb Line it is

 

[Grim|Reaper]

battle of the reapers....

 

[nrg_wp]

4mb ftw! cached content flies... but if you planning to clock at 20kbytes/sec, you should have a second PC for just downloading. Good idea Grimmy