Dial-up 56k download records

[AlbinoPanther]

We just downloaded Five magical amuLets 142mb with our powerfull modem :.
So what is your record?
We know that this is stupid topic but when you spend 11 hours downloading something....

IT better be darn GOOD - EDIT: IT IS


still hope that Squinky LieÃ,  ;DÃ, EDIT: [lgm] tooÃ,  EDIT: modgeulator and Las Naranjas alsoÃ, 
First place: SquinkyÃ, ( with his 1400 megs of M****R F*****G movies )
Second place: modgeulator ( with his 335 mb war )
Third place: Las Naranjas ( with his HOTU game )
Fourth place: [lgm]Ã, (Ã, with his horror 200 megs )
Fifth place: LJUBI ( with our gold worth 142 mb of Five magical amuLets )
Sixth place: Geoffkhan ( with his havy soundfont )
Seventh place: Helm ( with his Snatcher thingy )
Eight place: Darth Mandarb and his friend ( with his 33.6 succes )
Nineth place: mozzaÃ, ( with his 12 megs +/- )
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[Darth Mandarb]

My friend and I one time downloaded a HUGE pack of fonts ... it was like 80MB of fonts and took over 24 hours.

Granted this was back in the day ... we were using a 33.6 modem (not 56K).  I can't remember any significant downloads on the old 56K modem.  Haven't used on in years.  Been fortunate to have broadband everywhere since 2001.

[AlbinoPanther]

Serbia is a small and poor country so it is possible that there are some 33.6 modems in somebodys PC.

LOL this is the stupidiest topic ever ( this was our chance to be the winner of something in this glorius forum)

[Squinky]

I downloaded a movie or two with my dial-up. It took me like 3 days straight, on a 28 k connection.

[AlbinoPanther]

I downloaded a movie or two with my dial-up. It took me like 3 days straight, on a 28 k connection.

So how many MB it was?

[Squinky]

they were ussaully around two cd's worth, which I think is 1400 meg?

[AlbinoPanther]

So than you are the first SNIF  :'(

Well SILVER IS GREAT TOO!!!!

[mozza]

I have a 56k modem and the biggest thing I've downloaded would be about 12MB. It took ages!
I can't believe that you would download that much Squinky! :o

[Domino]

Back in the day when i had dial-up, i wouldn't attempt to download anything over 20 MB because i knew it would take forever.  But when i switched to DSL 2 years ago, i downloaded anything i could get my hands on.  I downloaded the DOOM3 demo with broadband, and that still took awhile at 400+ MB. I feel sorry for the folks still using dial-up.

Once you go broadband, you will never go back.

[Gregjazz]

Here is some of the stuff I downloaded with an extremely slow 56k modem. (and only one phone line, too!)

- Cream Drums Soundfont: 129 megs
- The Longest Journey Demo: 80 megs
- Free drum sampleset: 112 megs
- NSKit7 free: 70 megs

[LGM]

I think I downladed a movie aswell... I believe it was "House of a Thousand Corpses." That was about 200MB.

I know I downloaded other stuff, but I can't remember.

[AlbinoPanther]

Thanks to God we are still 3rd damn you [lgm]

[skyfire2]

i have a wireless internet connection. sometimes, it seems like i'm still using dial-up because my brothers are always playing wow.

[Squinky]

I have a 56k modem and the biggest thing I've downloaded would be about 12MB. It took ages!
I can't believe that you would download that much Squinky! :o

I would just turn it on at night, and use a download assistant. I had a pager if work needed me, heh...

[modgeulator]

I think the biggest single file I ever downloaded on a 56k modem was "The Dark Eye" off the Home of the Underdogs site.
http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=273

335mb, took about two days I think. Disaster struck though, and there were a few bytes corrupted in the download. Not wanting to download the whole thing again I somehow found the corrupted part of the file, cut off the end, tricked it into re-downloading that section and appended the end of the original download back on again.
Well, that's my geeky dial-up war-story.

[Phemar]

I downloaded Half Life 2 through Steam once ... how big is THAT game? 4 Gig? O_o

But then again I have a 64k leased line ... It still counts though, right?

[Las Naranjas]

I downloaded 330 mb of a game from HOTU. I also got a few other 100mb plus games.

It ended up not working.

I also downloaded 600 mb of movie once, but it turned out to be a fake file. Interestingly there was a strange occurance that made it download at 40kb/sec at times, on a 56k modem. I know this is impossible, but it came down in just a few hours, and windows seemed to think there was hundreds of mb of file there.

[Helm]

yeah I downloaded Snatcher back in the day for oh, 100ish megabytes. Let me check... 118

not as impressive as other stuff, but it seemed as quite a lot back then.

[AlbinoPanther]

Well you are better but that is only for a while WE WILL BE BACK

[Haddas]

My biggest modem aquiry is about 70mbs :/

However the single biggest download I've done is 35gb on broadband. 2 months it took me