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Mark,You obviously have 'Dial Up' or 56K modem (being there-done that). If you had DSL you would be downloading at 80 Kb per second. 1 meg in 15 seconds in other words. If it's 1,000 meg (1 Gig) than it would take aprox 4 hours. That how it works for all of us on DSL. There are higher speed (and higher priced) packages. I can't afford those. It is time for you to subscribe to a ('high speed') DSL (ethernet/LAN) type modem and 'plan' you can afford. I pay $19.99 (per month-which is 'avg') for mine. It works off your telephone line, just like the other modem. Your computer should have this type jack for it built in. It's a larger jack, and it's square (as opposed to USB, which is oblong). It will should have LAN stamped next to it. And no, it's not a conspiracy. The FCC limits what speed we can operate at. This limit applies to the web sites as well. There is only so much bandwidth that a site can use-by law. Also, if you have bad telephone wiring it will knock the speed down a little. But DSL is a deffinite improvement. Shop around. There are some local ISP (Internet Service Providers) but it's best to go with ATT/Yahoo, for example. AOL is more costly and sometimes has (frequent) down time and is buggy too. That is all i can offer for advice. Have a good one.CBNapamule

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downloading at 40-50kb

Methink the OP don't have a dialup connection .. those speed are too much high.My ADSL dynamic IP connection go trough a old USB Speedtouch modem at the maximum speed as shows belowOn some sites I have download speed like 400 kb/s and some others like 50 kb/s or even less ...I think it's not only legal limitation playing in but also how the site server is set to allow or not high download speeds ... and by wich nodes you establish connection with the server .. or the load of the traffic on the server.BTW .. my upload speed is limited by my ISP at a average of 60 kb/sRegards.Gus.

I have ADSL2+ and average 10mbs when downloading from other places. I mean, I'm at the original ethernet network speeds consistently. It's pretty amazing actually to be able to attain those speeds over a copper pair.Mark

I have ADSL2+ and average 10mbs when downloading from other places. I mean, I'm at the original ethernet network speeds consistently. It's pretty amazing actually to be able to attain those speeds over a copper pair.Mark

I have to agree, I'm on 50mb with Virgin Media in London, some places I can download a 2gig file in a few minutes. but a 70mb file from some addon companys can take 30 minutes sometimes. We do have to keep im mind that most of these addon companies are small fish in the grand scheme of things, they probably dont have the money to provide high speed hosting services.

While none of you are paying for bandwidth... many commercial web sites still do. ISPs will throttle the bandwidth based on package terms for the commercial web sites. The primary reason... so they can sell more individual sites without using up more of their bandwidth.

While none of you are paying for bandwidth... many commercial web sites still do. ISPs will throttle the bandwidth based on package terms for the commercial web sites. The primary reason... so they can sell more individual sites without using up more of their bandwidth.

Hey Ed, I know that the ISPs are forcing more money out of commercial webs that use more bandwidth...that's a given and it sucks. The thing that concerns me is one of customer service. To have paying customers, (who maybe spending a hundred or more dollars for scenery downloads), have to spend 6 hours to get a 1gb file seems a little selfish to me. I think that commercial webs should at least attempt to come up with a solution to this issue. Maybe by providing a one time high speed download and then subsequent downloads at the 40-50kb range. Something to alleviate this issue would be a very nice gesture on their part and I simply don't think it would cost that much. They could even implement a small charge to have high speed access if it really does cost that much to maintain a high speed server/bandwidth. But a solution in this day and age is required. With all of the technology we posses there has to be a way to fix this. That's why I was thinking bait and switch. You can download something sure, it's just going to take a week to get it and hope that you don't have any ISP issues yourself because you'll have to download it over. So I maybe off base but it's still and issue that needs resolution. At least that's my opinion.Mark

There's no "switch" a commercial web site can flip to activate higher speeds if their ISP is the throttle point.I'll give you a perfect example. Back in the mid-90's I had a client that was looking to purchase a dedicated web access point for his office. They offered him 128kb transfer speed. It sounded really good... until I asked a very important question: What was the transfer speed inside their systems... 56kb. So, paying for that 128kb speed would have allowed a fast transfer between the guy's office and his ISP.. but that's it.The ISP is a critical control point for commercial web sites.