In high-speed heaven...ready for OOTP6

rbhollow63 · 04-08-2004, 08:46 PM

I previously downloaded OOTP5 over a 56K modem and had held off getting a cable modem. I finally got tired of trying to download patches, rosters, picture packs, etc. with the 56K modem only to have the download stop on me in the middle of the night. Welcome high-speed access through my local cable company!! I had tried to download Draft Dodgers picture files (60+MB file). With the dial up it was downloading at around 3 kbps. I was glad to see my cable modem downloading at around 350 kbps (total download time of around 3.5 minutes). I can't wait to see how little time it takes to download OOTP6. I can't believe I waited this long.

Bald Eagles · 04-08-2004, 08:53 PM

My neighbor had a wireless connection. It was sweet that I could use my laptop to jump on the connection, download stuff, transfer it to a flash drive and upload to the desktop where OOTP lives. It's a process, but a free process. Until they secured the connection so I can't use it anymore. And then they moved, so it's back to the modem.

Eric · 04-08-2004, 11:09 PM

Maybe this is the reason why the game is taking so long. Markus finished the program last week but it's taking him this long to upload it onto the OOTP Developments web page.

Bald Eagles · 04-08-2004, 11:28 PM

LOL!!

Jonzard · 04-09-2004, 02:33 AM

Markus hasnt sprung for anything beyond 28.8

Giants44 · 04-09-2004, 12:04 PM

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Originally posted by Bald Eagles
My neighbor had a wireless connection. It was sweet that I could use my laptop to jump on the connection, download stuff, transfer it to a flash drive and upload to the desktop where OOTP lives. It's a process, but a free process. Until they secured the connection so I can't use it anymore. And then they moved, so it's back to the modem.

you could always find a local "hot spot" and do the same thing

Bald Eagles · 04-09-2004, 12:37 PM

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Originally posted by Giants44
you could always find a local "hot spot" and do the same thing

Yes, but this was done from the comfort of my own home.

I'd have to look how far away the nearest hot spot is.

Now when I need to DL something, I do it at work and save it to my flash drive. Pop that in my PC at home and it copies right over.

Antonin · 04-09-2004, 12:57 PM

It's good to know that I'm not the only one still slogging away with a crummy dialup connection.

BrentBlades · 04-09-2004, 05:37 PM

Crummy dial-up right here too.

04-08-2004, 08:46 PM	#1
rbhollow63 Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Cleveland, TN Posts: 45	In high-speed heaven...ready for OOTP6 I previously downloaded OOTP5 over a 56K modem and had held off getting a cable modem. I finally got tired of trying to download patches, rosters, picture packs, etc. with the 56K modem only to have the download stop on me in the middle of the night. Welcome high-speed access through my local cable company!! I had tried to download Draft Dodgers picture files (60+MB file). With the dial up it was downloading at around 3 kbps. I was glad to see my cable modem downloading at around 350 kbps (total download time of around 3.5 minutes). I can't wait to see how little time it takes to download OOTP6. I can't believe I waited this long.

04-09-2004, 02:33 AM	#5
Jonzard Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Minnesota Posts: 3,647	Markus hasnt sprung for anything beyond 28.8 __________________ For a scientist must indeed be freely imaginative and yet skeptical, creative and yet a critic. There is a sense in which he must be free, but another in which his thought must be very precisely regimented; there is poetry in science, but also a lot of bookkeeping. — Sir Peter B. Medawar FTB

04-09-2004, 12:57 PM	#8
Antonin Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Ohio Posts: 2,509	It's good to know that I'm not the only one still slogging away with a crummy dialup connection. __________________ "Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?" - Johnny Rotten (Sex Pistols), San Francisco, 14 January 1978

04-08-2004, 08:53 PM	#2
Bald Eagles Major Leagues Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Waveland & Sheffield Posts: 402	My neighbor had a wireless connection. It was sweet that I could use my laptop to jump on the connection, download stuff, transfer it to a flash drive and upload to the desktop where OOTP lives. It's a process, but a free process. Until they secured the connection so I can't use it anymore. And then they moved, so it's back to the modem.

04-08-2004, 11:09 PM	#3
Eric All Star Starter Join Date: May 2002 Location: Folsom, CA Posts: 1,234	Maybe this is the reason why the game is taking so long. Markus finished the program last week but it's taking him this long to upload it onto the OOTP Developments web page.

04-08-2004, 11:28 PM	#4
Bald Eagles Major Leagues Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Waveland & Sheffield Posts: 402	LOL!!

04-09-2004, 05:37 PM	#9
BrentBlades Minors (Double A) Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Louisville Posts: 134	Crummy dial-up right here too.