I want to download some past episodes of Californication from Showtime On Demand. Both SD and HD versions are available. It is taking about 30 minutes to download the SD version (30-minute program). Any guesses as to how long an HD download would take?
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Very hard to guess with just the information you're giving, but I'd take a rough guess at 90 - 120 minutes. But...even given all the information about your connection and speed any estimate is just a guess as we can't know what other traffic you have on your network, what the routing will be like, other network traffic on your ISP and any factors limiting the bandwidth DirecTV's host has available.ansky said:
Why not try one and see?
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It really all depends on your D/L speeds and what you're downloading. I personally have had times were d/l something of of DoD has slower than usual even though my internet speeds have been fast..
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I'd say about 3-4x the DL times that you say you get for SD downloads.
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I have basic DSL service @768K download and DOD is very slow for me, and it slows down the rest of the use also as would be expected. The few times that I have used it, I do it overnight.
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I have 1.5mbps down cable and Vantage Point in HD took about 5 hours.
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I have 12 mbps download. Speed tests show that I can get actual download speeds of 10mbps. The last thing I downloaded that I timed was a 5 minute Olympic event and it took about 12 minutes. When I upgraded from 7mbps service the downloads for DOD did not speed up. I think it is limited on D* side to about 4mbps.
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Yeah, your download time for an Olympic 5 min event is not much better than mine, so they do have it capped pretty low.
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The uploads do seem to be limited to about 4-5 Mbps from the DirecTV side. I see this with my cable connection and a 12 Mbps pipe. You can have FIOS and a 45 Mbps pipe, the best you are going to get is 4-5 Mbps. There was a thread about this somewhere in the DOD forum, which is really where this post should reside.MountainMan10 said:
With the number of ISPs out there and the networks between endpoints, it would be hard to make that statement without definitive documentation from someone at DirecTV.Wisegoat said:
At this point, it is only reasonable to assume that someone with the same ISP in the same local area can expect to hit the same ceiling of throughput. You could easily have no throttling at the ISP level or from DirecTV and still have a network between them be a bottleneck. It could even be a bottleneck in the upstream connection sending response packets at the local network level. The number of variables adds up quickly.
I know I was able to download the Bucket List 1080p24 VOD in about 2.5-3 hours at 10Mbps.
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