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Blazing fast downloads! Holy cow! (785 KB/s)

February 4, 2008 6:26:58 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums
I'd say you guys beefed up the lines

I snagged it in about 30 mins!
Go Stardock and go Comcast (never thought i'd say that).


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Reply #1 February 4, 2008 6:28:34 PM
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Meh, I had 900kb going once in the beta; and I think some people had even higher.
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Reply #2 February 4, 2008 6:30:01 PM
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Agreed. Kudos to Stardock for springing for the extra bandwidth!
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Reply #3 February 4, 2008 6:48:16 PM
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Got you guys beat... I was hitting 7000KB+ for a while there. But then again, i'm using government Internet connection here at my work. Your tax dollar at work. I hope they don't block off stardock soon.
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Reply #4 February 4, 2008 6:52:49 PM
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I wonder what im doing wrong. 34KB a second MAX. Usually it hovers close to 15.
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Reply #5 February 4, 2008 7:23:01 PM
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It happily maxed out my connection for the whole download. Awesome.
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Reply #6 February 4, 2008 7:33:58 PM
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I start to DL then I opened my email immediately after that I opened my browser then came here and posted in one thread. Clicked on this one then the message about successful install poped -up. All in all less then five (5) minutes methinks. Awesomeness!
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Reply #7 February 4, 2008 8:08:00 PM
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lucky you...
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Reply #8 February 4, 2008 8:09:18 PM
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Lucky you. I have about 100kps average. Charter "high speed" internet is kind of slow at 8:00, but on a morning, it goes at about 500kps... how stange
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Reply #9 February 4, 2008 8:18:16 PM
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i got it at 8900 kb/s

unpacking took longer actually
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Reply #10 February 4, 2008 8:21:42 PM
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I hate you all! Stupid Verizon DSL only does 125 kb/s >.<
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Reply #11 February 8, 2008 3:42:47 PM
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Hey, i was happy that my 8meg comcast line was near saturated. I've never gotten anywhere near that speed.

(google it, b is bit, B is byte)
1 Mbps = 128 KBps
I have an 8 Mbps comcast line so 8*128 = 1024 KBps theoretical max.


What the heck kind of connection do all you people claiming to get 1000's of KBps have? Yeesh. Certainly not cable or DSL.
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Reply #12 February 8, 2008 6:51:02 PM
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My experience with Stardock download, for the past 18 months (at least), has been extremely positive : always a 750 to 825 kb/sec speed (on my cable connection), and no disconnects (or errors) whatsoever.

That is one of the many reasons I have been very happy with Stardock service -- since the GalCiv 1 beta. It is really not fun to wait hours, or to see a 90%-complete download crash : that has never happened to me with SDC.

(I'm not paid to say that, I am not friends with anybody at Stardock, and it is not my intention to become a FOB -- friend of Brad, not friend of Bill Clinton.)
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Reply #13 February 8, 2008 6:53:49 PM
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Got you guys beat... I was hitting 7000KB+ for a while there. But then again, i'm using government Internet connection here at my work. Your tax dollar at work. I hope they don't block off stardock soon.


Sure that wasn't 7000bytes?
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Reply #14 February 8, 2008 6:59:41 PM
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7000 KB/sec is achieved by a secret military computer-network. It's called Skynet.
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Reply #15 February 11, 2008 6:32:21 PM
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Hmmm... budget cutbacks have resulted in 28.8kbps modems as standard issue.
SOrry.

In all seriousness... holy crap. Good job Stardock, i've been pretty happy regarding downloading the game.
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Reply #16 February 11, 2008 8:17:40 PM
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Heh.  Well, the thing about digital distribution is that it's gotta be fast or why bother?

Based on feedback, it was definitely worth leasing high performance bandwidth.

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