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[QUOTE=&quot;Rickideemus, post: 112951, member: 12677&quot;]Shoot, there are guys here with much faster speeds. I don't know what you mean by a one off, but it's a true 1 Mbps upload speed. It used to be 0.96 to 0.98, but they did some kind of upgrade and now it's always 1.01 to 1.07 Mbps. (Just tried it, got 1.06 and 17.28 down)Now the fact is, when you download a very large file the download often goes in fits and starts, so you don't get the full 18 Mbps or whatever. But there's a trick for that too. Turns out Flash has technology that locks in on a stream so the path from you to server won't change while you're watching YouTube or whatever. So believe it or not, if you run a Flash video in the background, very large files will usually download faster! Naturally that's not going to work if you're at ~10 Mbps or less -- the video will take up too much of the bandwidth. It's even possible to trick your computer into thinking a Flash video is running when it's not, but that's more trouble than it's worth.Rick[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE="Rickideemus, post: 112951, member: 12677"]Shoot, there are guys here with much faster speeds. I don't know what you mean by a one off, but it's a true 1 Mbps upload speed. It used to be 0.96 to 0.98, but they did some kind of upgrade and now it's always 1.01 to 1.07 Mbps. (Just tried it, got 1.06 and 17.28 down) Now the fact is, when you download a very large file the download often goes in fits and starts, so you don't get the full 18 Mbps or whatever. But there's a trick for that too. Turns out Flash has technology that locks in on a stream so the path from you to server won't change while you're watching YouTube or whatever. So believe it or not, if you run a Flash video in the background, very large files will usually download faster! Naturally that's not going to work if you're at ~10 Mbps or less -- the video will take up too much of the bandwidth. It's even possible to trick your computer into thinking a Flash video is running when it's not, but that's more trouble than it's worth. Rick[/QUOTE]

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