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Both powerlined and hardwired, it takes over 1 hour download a 24 min program in HD..
Hr21-100 5 LNB dish....
Anyone?
Hr21-100 5 LNB dish....
Anyone?
VOD downloading at snails pace.
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I only have a 1.5mbps cable connection and it took about 5 hours to download Vantage Point in HD (93 minutes)
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WOW! That's brutal. but even at 1.5mbps, that should have 2 hour HD movies downloaded in 10 minutes at my estimation (which could be way off)...elwaylite said:
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Nah, i dont think youre looking at it correctly. Back when I had a 1mbps connection with comcast (8 years ago) I would download theatrical movies off P2P sites that were 700 mb's with crappy PQ and theyd take a couple of hours. These HD movies are prob in the 6-7 gig range.
Thats whats great about DOD, put a whole bunch in your queue ahead of time, then have them downloaded and waiting. This way they are ready when you are.
Thats whats great about DOD, put a whole bunch in your queue ahead of time, then have them downloaded and waiting. This way they are ready when you are.
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Well, a few weeks ago I downloaded 15 hours worth of HD in under 14 hours with 5/2 speeds.
I can start watching HD almost immediately and never catch up.
I can start watching HD almost immediately and never catch up.
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At 5mbps, thats not bad. Ive seen comments that DOD is capped, wonder what the number is.
Im completely happy with the 1.5 down, I just pick the movie in advance. Im getting that speed for $25/mo thru Cox, so I aint complaining
Im completely happy with the 1.5 down, I just pick the movie in advance. Im getting that speed for $25/mo thru Cox, so I aint complaining
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D* throttles their VOD downloads at approximately 3mbps. You can usually download SD at 2 to 1 and a 2 hr HD movie takes a little longer than three hours. You can, of course, start watching an HD movie after about a 20 minute, or so, head start. I have a 6mbps DSL. These have been my observations.
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As I mentioned earlier, 2 hrs of HD takes less than 2 hours to download for me. They must only be throttling certain customers (and I'm glad I'm not one of them).davring said:
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Well, maybe their cap is not 3mbps. How do we know thats the number?
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These are the ones I have paid attention to, some may be faster I'm sure. Easy way to test download speed is to run a speed test during a download. The speed test will indicate what is left to be used based on your connection speed. To get the speeds mentioned for HD would be one heck of a good connection. My brother has cable that can, sometimes, achieve those speeds, usually during the night.elwaylite said:
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Yup.Draconis said:
connection speed via your ISP is not the issue clearly. I get almost 95,000kbps down and 18,000kbps up...
How do we address this?
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My router running DD-WRT shows the current throughput of data on the connection. On Demand varies, but as far as I've noticed, it tends to stay around 6-7Mbps. That's a bit frustrating on a 15Mbps line, but it's not awful. I imagine over time the speed will get a bit faster.
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