Thread: Interweb question: Is it really a series of tubes?
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Old 08-16-2007, 03:31 AM
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Originally Posted by SuperGreg
My calculations could be off, but since my current upload speed is 560kbps, it would take ~2.6 hours to upload 5GB through my Cox broadband account. Now if you had Verizon's FIOS with 2mbps upload speeds. you could upload 5GB in ~43 minutes. So I think it's really dependent on your connection and upload speeds.
VZ has their FIOS packages cranked all the way up to 50mbps down/10mbps up in some markets. At spec, that's an 8 min. upload of that 5GB file.
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