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Your download speed is not the only variable

Another factor would be what's happening at the other end, i.e., how fast the server there can satisfy requests, etc.

Yet another factor would be if the file you're downloading is compressed, and if so, how it's compressed. My internet download speed is between 50Mbps and 80Mbps (depending on the particular date and time of day), and it took me less than 15 minutes to download the BIS Stravinsky recording in my thread below. This is for a 65 minute multi-channel album, which has a size of 2.89 GB in its FLAC incarnation (6.7 GB converted to AIFF). The FLAC files were further compressed into a ZIP archive, which probably also helped with the download speed.


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  • Your download speed is not the only variable - Chris from Lafayette 13:47:56 04/24/16 (0)

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