# I've downloaded Movies and songs from the Web, and from IRC...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-downloaded-movies-and-songs-from-the-web-and-from-irc/42246>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 22, 2000, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-downloaded-movies-and-songs-from-the-web-and-from-irc/42246 "2000-11-22T04:46:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2000, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-downloaded-movies-and-songs-from-the-web-and-from-irc/42246/1 "2000-11-22T04:46:38Z")

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And I was just curious as to why it seems to go so much faster when I’m downloading from an IRC Fserve?

anyone?

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**Author:** ![Dani\_Filth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@Dani\_Filth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dani_Filth)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2000, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-downloaded-movies-and-songs-from-the-web-and-from-irc/42246/2 "2000-11-22T10:45:02Z")

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Less trafic perhaps. Suppose you have a guy on IRC with a hot DSL (or better) connection, and he’s sending a file to JUST YOU. You get all the bandwidth. As opposed to a website which (depending on the server) may have limited bandwidth, and MANY simultaneous users. Was that the answer you were looking for?

-Dani