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How fast can i download a movie
- Thread starter Echidna83
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Up-to a minute for SD, 5-10 minutes for HD, and around 20 minutes for 4K. I limit downloads to 500M, so depending on overhead, network equipment, and whether you choose to limit download speeds, it could be a smidge longer.
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Extremely excessive, but in the past couple weeks I updated my Google Fiber from a 1GB plan to an 8GB plan. From what I can tell, this has no impact on ethernet cable connection for the Strato V, because it uses a gigabit ethernet connection. What I am curious about, is if I upgrade my router to something that has more range (Nighthawk, Orbi, Eero 7 Max) would I be able to exceed the 1 gigabit connection speeds I currently get by switching to WiFi instead?
Anyone have experience with this? I feel like I'm getting greedy, but if I've got the power.....
Anyone have experience with this? I feel like I'm getting greedy, but if I've got the power.....
I don't have a Strato V, but I believe it is limited to a Gigabit connection which means you're likely already seeing the fastest download speeds.
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I have a Terra Prime and don't get much faster speeds than you with a 2.5GB connection. If I had the SSD Terra Prime, I could but I have a hard time justifying several thousand dollars to shave 4 minutes off a 4K download.
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A friend was wondering why he wasn't getting the 4-5 min downloads with his Terra Prime using a 5 Gb internet connection, not realizing he was using a 1Gb Switch for his LAN.....
Jim
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Also the WAN and LAN ports on the router, especially if you are running your own vs one supplied by the ISP. My tried and true NetGate SG-2440 is not ready for the brave new world of >1Gbps fiber connections.
The Strato V does not support wifi.
well it doesn't natively support wifi, but it works just fine on a wireless bridge device (or mesh networking endpoint) that has an ethernet jack, like the author was asking about. Doubt you'll improve your download speeds that way, but I get close to a gigabit download using a high end wireless bridge on my V. (7-10 minutes for a 4K download on average)
Fair point I've done that when travelling with the V, but you can hook up to a teraflop connection and you'll still never exceed the maximum capable bandwidth of the device.
Right, but then you're back to using the Ethernet port on the Strato V, which is 1 gigabit.
At the present time, the products that can exceed 1 gigabit download performance are the Terra Prime servers, which have 2.5 gigabit ports. The models with hard drives can go faster than gigabit (if memory serves, on the order of 1200-1300 Mbit/sec), while the solid-state servers can effectively saturate the port if the Internet connection permits. I regularly see in excess of 2.3Gbit/sec on my Terra Prime SSD.
Nice. Faster than I remembered (assuming that's an HDD and not an SSD).
Yes 88 TB HDD.
I have Comcast 500Mbps service. My Terra SSD downloads faster than my Premier 3U HDD (both wired); I found out as I juggled space and moved a couple hundred titles for space management this past week.
The Terra SSD, depending on title was about 15-20 minutes per title. It would report 500-515Mbps when set to unlimited, and this was the only Internet based activity going on.
The Premier 3U HDD, depending on title was about 25-35 minutes per title. It would report 200-240Mbps set to unlimited when it was the only Internet based activity running.
Now with that fun activity done, I had to reimport some non movie store titles. Seeing times like an hour or an hour and a half for the M700 to read a Blu-ray was well, strange. lol
The Terra SSD, depending on title was about 15-20 minutes per title. It would report 500-515Mbps when set to unlimited, and this was the only Internet based activity going on.
The Premier 3U HDD, depending on title was about 25-35 minutes per title. It would report 200-240Mbps set to unlimited when it was the only Internet based activity running.
Now with that fun activity done, I had to reimport some non movie store titles. Seeing times like an hour or an hour and a half for the M700 to read a Blu-ray was well, strange. lol
(I think you meant 2Gbps not 2GHZ).
Nice! Actually surprised it isn't faster than 4 minutes with a full 2.5Gbps network with a Terra SSD and 2Gbps internet service. But still... 4 minutes is pretty good.