What's The Most You've Downloaded In A Week?

Sexbomb · 28/09/14 - 23:13

I've broken my world record since joining the dark ages of the internet back in 2004... my previous record was about 70gb, it's now

[highlight]485.1GB[/highlight]

Cryolemon · 28/09/14 - 23:14

Dunno, but recently probably a couple of GB in games from Steam.

Jason · 28/09/14 - 23:17

i always remember the usual excuse from people too embarrassed to admit they illegally downloaded being "well i do download linux iso's you know"

nearly half a terabyte in a week is a lot of linux iso's .. heh ..

Fizix · 28/09/14 - 23:19

Recently... Probably downloading the tales of series plus GB's of work stuff, which would probably make about 40GB combined. I don't keep count but I suspect that was heavier than normal.

Sexbomb · 28/09/14 - 23:19

I spoke to somebody last week and download's 1.8tb a month

:o:o i will be tailing that right off now and get to a more normal use so could end up being about 700gb this month

Jason · 28/09/14 - 23:22

Sexbomb wrote: »

I spoke to somebody last week and download's 1.8tb a month :o:o i will be tailing that right off now and get to a more normal use so could end up being about 700gb this month

that's insane. what on earth could they possibly download ?

[Deleted User] · 28/09/14 - 23:22

I only download music, and only from itunes. Every so often I find that I have downloaded 20 tracks and realize that is 20 quid. I have to re-frame it in beer in my mind (to stop myself feeling guilty if my husband sees). That's only a round of drinks in a fairly poncy bar.

Si_Crewe · 28/09/14 - 23:23

Once upon a time I had to download something that was about 200gb using a 3g router at work.
It was a Friday evening, the connection was shite and everybody else was sloping off early so I decided to do the same, figuring I'd just let it run all night and it'd be finished by morning.

Got a phone-call the following morning to say there was no work and we were getting the weekend off which resulted in many cervezas getting drunk over the next couple of days.

Got into work on Monday morning to realise that, not only was my download complete but it'd been seeding all weekend with a share-ratio of around 8:1.

Fortunately, my boss wasn't that clued-up about 3g data costs so it was just brushed aside as being what it cost to get the job done.

Jason · 28/09/14 - 23:26

Si_Crewe wrote: »

Once upon a time I had to download something that was about 200gb using a 3g router at work.
It was a Friday evening, the connection was shite and everybody else was sloping off early so I decided to do the same, figuring I'd just let it run all night and it'd be finished by morning.

Got a phone-call the following morning to say there was no work and we were getting the weekend off which resulted in many cervezas getting drunk over the next couple of days.

Got into work on Monday morning to realise that, not only was my download complete but it'd been seeding all weekend with a share-ratio of around 8:1.

Fortunately, my boss wasn't that clued-up about 3g data costs so it was just brushed aside as being what it cost to get the job done.

I like that

The most i've ever downloaded in one go is 151gb. It was well seeded thankfully, so only took about 8 or 9 hours.

[Deleted User] · 28/09/14 - 23:27

JasonWatkins wrote: »

I It was well seeded thankfully, so only took about 8 or 9 hours.

I hope you cleaned your keyboard afterwards. With a non-alcoholic based wipe obviously.

Jason · 28/09/14 - 23:29

Vernon Bennett wrote: »

I hope you cleaned your keyboard afterwards. With a non-alcoholic based wipe obviously.

Heh

It was the complete collection of Mystery Science Theatre 3000, for the record. Nothing smutty !

Biffo the Bear · 28/09/14 - 23:34

I downloaded all of Prisoner Cell Block H around 5 years ago - that was about 250Gb in one week. Still got it on an HD somewhere too. And yes, I watched every single episode!

NX-74205 · 28/09/14 - 23:35

I hardly bother to check these days, but when I did at home it used to hover around the 500GB per week mark.

Jason · 28/09/14 - 23:37

I must be a "light" user then

ianradioian · 28/09/14 - 23:38

I use my mobile to download and its about 25gb a week

[Deleted User] · 29/09/14 - 00:11

A couple of MP3s.

darkjedimaster · 29/09/14 - 01:01

It varies how much I download each week. If a film comes out on bluray that I buy, I will then download a rip to watch on any of my devices. But now that the TV is picking up again, I will download a number of shows at USA pace without adverts and before it comes on UK screens.

d'@ve · 29/09/14 - 01:22

IIRC about 400 GB but usually a lot less.

I know that I *could* download 5TB in a week, if I wanted to, but if I kept on doing it, my "Unlimited" Internet provider would probably start to take an interest, eventually!

gashead · 29/09/14 - 08:57

Sexbomb wrote: »

I've broken my world record since joining the dark ages of the internet back in 2004... my previous record was about 70gb, it's now
[highlight]485.1GB[/highlight]

What's that then, about ten boxsets? C'mon, which ones? And which ISP and package are you on if you weren't throttled?

Schmiznurf · 29/09/14 - 09:35

What on earth are you all downloading to get so much in one week?
I have downloaded 70gb in the past 31 days and 8 of that was the land before time collection for the kid.

fmradiotuner1 · 29/09/14 - 10:09

I use around about 450GB a month this due to watching youtube , net radio , a few 1080P DTS films can be over 12GB each. Also sky demand shows are very big and can be over 2GB each.

Alan1981 · 29/09/14 - 10:21

Probably around 50 gb a month. Most of that is the free xbox live and psn+ games.

Pisces Cloud · 29/09/14 - 10:24

Probably when I've downloaded a game such as World of Warcraft. Usually it's no more than a couple of gb in a week.

zx50 · 29/09/14 - 13:03

I don't know for sure because I've never added it all up before. I'd guess around 300GB back in 2009 when BT weren't happy about people using their service to download heavily. I'm not a HEAVY downloader anyway. I might reach about 200GBs if I need more HD videos. I seriously doubt I'd ever reach well into the hundreds of GBs unless file sizes started increasing a lot.

Rich_L · 29/09/14 - 13:12

JasonWatkins wrote: »

i always remember the usual excuse from people too embarrassed to admit they illegally downloaded being "well i do download linux iso's you know"

nearly half a terabyte in a week is a lot of linux iso's .. heh ..

I came in to say excatly the same thing!

TheTruth1983 · 29/09/14 - 13:14

I only download music and only from Bandcamp (FLAC) or 7 Digital (MP3 320). I don't do it often as I normally just splurge after I get paid. I'd be looking at maybe 5 - 10gb.

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