My downloads always start immediately.  I really notice it when I had real
high speed access instead of what Qwest calls high speed.  I've got a friend
with Cox who regularly gets 20mbit plus...most times his downloads are over
half done before he even decides where he wants it.

Mike

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Tony B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Well, whatever they want to call it, the caching is a mixed blessing.
>
> Anyway, I'm averaging 6.5 mbs (800KBs). I dunno if we have our M's and
> B's straight. I'm trying to use Netmeter and it even offers "kibobytes
> (KiB)". Anyway, these are unremarkable speeds and I don't think coming
> from any cache for me.
>
> Interesting thing I noticed is the download started immediately and
> didn't wait for me to press"save to disk". I guess it's always been
> that way, but I never noticed it before.
>
>
> On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Jeff Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I thought power boost was only for the first 12 MB?
> >
> >
> http://pdl.warnerbros.com/wbmovies/thedarkknight/trailer_3/DKTRL3_1080.wmv.z
> > ip
> >
> > See what you get; it's 133 MB file.  I was consistently getting over 1
> > MB/sec.
>
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