huge file to download?

Question

i have frontier dsl (terrible- 1.2 mbps...), and i am trying to get my dad to get road runner (my neighbor on the standard plan gets a constant 14mbps).

but my probolem is that he dosnt notace the differance, so i want to get a huge file to download (preferably something that will take DAYS to download), so that then he will realize that he cant watch youtube videos (thats all he does online)

i am currently dowinlowding some bittorrents, but the constant speed of those are to slow to matter.

Any help would greatly be appreciated

(also, in my area, those are the only 2 isps, so please dont recommend others)

Answer 1

To slow down your connection and make it nearly impossible for your dad to watch youtube videos, you need something that you can UPLOAD not DOWNLOAD.



So, download a torrent and keep it running and let it UPLOAD for as long as you can.

Say you can upload at 50 kb/s, and you slow it down to 20 kb. It should run fine. But if you leave it running at the full speed, you can barely even search google when your up speed is being used.

Answer 2

How about downloading it off from some friends' place with faster internet, and copy the thingy back to your place ?

Answer 3

Want huge files to download. Linux distrobutions!





http://fedora.osuosl.org/linux/releases/10/Fedora/i386/iso/Fedora-10-i386-DVD.iso

ftp://ftp.ukc.mirrorservice.org/sites/carroll.cac.psu.edu/MandrivaLinux/official/iso/2009.0/mandriva-linux-free-2009-dvd-x86_64.iso



those are each at least a few GB.

Answer 4

1.2 mbps is kinda fast.