I am paying for the fastest internet connection over here. I really do not know where to look to tell you my connection speed. In any case, I am downloading the update to Civ V. The updater says I have 20 hours and 46 minutes to go. This skips around wildly, with the record being the 17 day figure.
So I hope I win the contest for slowest ISP.
I noticed yesterday that there were a bunch of pieces of software that went ahead and downloaded and updated yesterday. No idea why.
If you want to check your speed you can check on something like www.speedtest.net. Obviously you won’t want to do this when you’ve got other stuff going on.
-Joe
Can we let Paul borrow some of the hamsters from the SDMB? They have some vacation time coming anyway. Send 'em to the beach.
956.88MB of 3.12GB, 4 days 22 hours remaining
Seventeen to four days in an apparent forty minutes. You’re downloading at relativistic speeds, so it seems that your problem is that you’re sitting still observing the progress bar–so things seem wonky to you.
1GB of 3.12GB 7 hours and 55 minutes to go.
Can’t you just get a copy of the disk and install it at your leisure?
No, I am in Saudi Arabia. Besides, there are only 9 hours and 38 minutes to go.
2.1 GB in 7-8 hours is a speed of about 768kbps, which really seems slow these days.
I lived with 768k DSL for quite a few years in Baltimore because the wiring on the house we were renting was old and couldn’t cope with anything faster. It was fine for general surfing, but if i wanted to download a large file i had to be prepared to wait a while.
That’s kind of like this doozy of a database patchnote I received this morning:
I was thinking, “Damn, who waited around for 75 hours to see if it would work?”
The bartender replies, “Sorry, we don’t serve particles faster than light.”
A tachyon walks into a bar.
I feel your pain. Our CAD files reside on a server in Germany and take forever to get pulled across to a local workspace in the US. Parent company essentially tells me I am crazy to question their internal network or internet connection speed. I know we have good throughput up and down here so it isn’t on our end.
Got confirmation last week when they asked that we pull a 3 gig disk image off their server. Took almost 3 days. And they wonder why productivity is so much worse on our end.
Hey, my first “obligatory”!
joints creaking well in my day young man we had 9.600 bauds, uphill in the snow both ways, and we were grateful !
9600? Certainly I’, not the only one to remember when 9600 was a huge upgrade we’d spend hundreds of dollars to achieve.
-joe
Shesh I’m a child* and I remember 300 baud.
*It might only be in my mind but it counts damnit!
1.17MB of 3.12MB 2 Days 21 Hours Remaining, then a second later,
1.17MB of 3.12MB Less Than a Minute Remaining
Something is wrong with my clock.
I made the mistake of ordering a game off of the Steam platform. Never again. I have cellular Internet and it looks like whenever they do updates for the game, you have to download the whole thing over. I think I’m on day 3ish of downloading this 8GB game at 15kbps. Ironically the timer always says <10 hours to go.
Due to higher than expected download volume, you may experience longer than normal waits.
Please stay on the line as your information is very important to us.
Yeah; I remember watching text come in and appear letter by letter.