moving 10 GB over the internet?

[big builder]

Is this possible?

I have figured out how to move the files I need but they are 10GB.

Are there any consequences to this?  Do internet providers limit how much information I can download?

I have high speed .........how long do yo guys think this might take?

Thanks for all your help

[Dias de verano]

I have a 20 mbit/second connection, and it would take me about 1 hour 20 minutes to download 10 Gb from a server well connected to my ISP's backbone.

Most ordinary broadband connections are slower, e.g. a 2 Mbit connection would take about 13 hours.

But you have to get it up on the server and most high speed connections are assymetrical. My upload speed is 768 Mbit /sec. At this rate it would take about 30 hours to upload.

A fedex parcel with 3 DVD-Rs might be as fast.

Your own ISP will be the people to ask about any data caps they impose.

[big builder]

Ok,

I really didn't understand what you said but I did look at my connection and it said 100 mbps??

I am not sure about the assemtrical thing you said .......or basically anything else but I will check with my provider to see about the quantity.

The computer is in my other office.... sadly locked.  I can only access this computer with the Go to my PC program.

[Broni]

What do you mean by "locked"?

[randomuser83]

What do you mean by "locked"?

I am guessing remote access?  The way the sentance was phrased makes it sound that way to me.

[Broni]

We can keep guessing

[big builder]

sorry,

Yes remote access.

It all worked out though.  Sent someone over there with a usb floppy drive.

Thanks guys.

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

Glad you got the file transfered.

Site side note:

This is a USB Flash Drive


This is a Floppy.


 

[Dias de verano]

Glad you got the file transfered.

Site note:

This is a USB Flash Drive
(image)

This is a Floppy.
(image of floppy DISK)

... and this is a USB floppy disk DRIVE.



(What's a "site note"?)

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

Sorry, side note.

Yeah, that may be a USB Floppy drive but I wouldn't want to transfer 10GB via floppy disks.

[BC_Programmer]

Sorry, side note.

Yeah, that may be a USB Floppy drive but I wouldn't want to transfer 10GB via floppy disks.

10GB = 10240MB / 1.38MB = 7421 floppy disks...

each floppy disk weighs, I'll guess, around 15 grams (might be more or less), 15 * 7421 = 111315 grams, or 111 kg.

something tells me that a 4.0GB flash drive would both cost and weigh less then over 7 thousand floppy discs...

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

7421 Floppy Disks....That will take a long time to copy to, load into truck, unload into home, and copy off.

 

[BC_Programmer]

Actually it should be 14842 floppy disks, since we all know how reliable floppy disks can be