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Are you being cute about limits, or did you make a math error?

A dial up modem can do gigabytes per month...



1024GB * (1024 MB/GB) * (8Mb/1MB) * (1s/0.92Mb) * (1 hr/3600s) * (1 day/24 hrs) = 105.5 days/TB.

I was talking about uploading a terabyte. Also on my connection, when one person is uploading, download speed falls from 25Mbps to a crawl. I think it's something to do with coax being half-duplex. My family wouldn't put up with slow internet for the 24.73 hours it would take to upload 10GB, let alone the two months it would take to push a terabyte.

If I had to move that kind of data, I would mail storage media.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/2720958158.png




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