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5 total messages Started by Granota Mon, 12 Mar 2001 22:16
and where can I download Quake II?
#122
Author: Granota
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 22:16
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Hello everybody, could anyone tell me how can I download the complete game?.
Thanks
Re: and where can I download Quake II?
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Author: sanguis
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 23:36
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"Granota" <granotaforever@ono.com> wrote in message
news:dVbr6.3549$Lt1.14747@newsr01.ono.com...
> Hello everybody, could anyone tell me how can I download the complete
game?.

u just asked this in agq3. there is no way of downloading it. the game's cd
takes up 7500 Gigabytes per second an hour on a _good_ day, which is a rough
transfer rate of 5658terraflops so it would take approximately (/me pulls
out calculator) 482.3 centuries to upload. That's bearing in mind the fastet
connection available out there is the super schmANET which only swanky
educational establishments have and is the equivalent of a 14.4k in america.
Believe me mate, unless you want to spend the next 500 years downloading
this game, it just ain't worth it.

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Andrew Stanton
sanguis aka
*NeX*/-=FuQ=-
"I hate self-righteous people"
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icq#61260713
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 -Damned Nation (beta)
http://www.pukka.jolt.co.uk
 -The Mysterious Youth (alpha)
http://www.pukka.jolt.co.uk/html/tmy/intro.html







































If anyone reads this, I know the above is a load of bollox, but if can
convince someone to buy a game for once. well... :D
Re: and where can I download Quake II?
#124
Author: DeathScythe
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 00:10
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Damn straight
"Granota" <granotaforever@ono.com> wrote in message
news:dVbr6.3549$Lt1.14747@newsr01.ono.com...
> Hello everybody, could anyone tell me how can I download the complete
game?.
> Thanks
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Re: and where can I download Quake II?
#126
Author: Glock64
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 00:38
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Those calculations are wrong. Its game size / download speed = time

teraflops is one trillion mathematical operations per second. Download time
is in size/second, not flops.

According to you, downloading that long at a rate of 5kb/sec which is around
a 56K you would download 7600176GIGs or 7600.176terabytes of file, which
surpasses even the largest personal hardrive. The average CD holds 750MB
which is 10133568 times smaller than the above.

sanguis <sanguis@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:q2dr6.19888$t1.2069656@news6-win.server.ntlworld.com...
> "Granota" <granotaforever@ono.com> wrote in message
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> > Hello everybody, could anyone tell me how can I download the complete
> game?.
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> u just asked this in agq3. there is no way of downloading it. the game's
cd
> takes up 7500 Gigabytes per second an hour on a _good_ day, which is a
rough
> transfer rate of 5658terraflops so it would take approximately (/me pulls
> out calculator) 482.3 centuries to upload. That's bearing in mind the
fastet
> connection available out there is the super schmANET which only swanky
> educational establishments have and is the equivalent of a 14.4k in
america.
> Believe me mate, unless you want to spend the next 500 years downloading
> this game, it just ain't worth it.
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> --
> Andrew Stanton
> sanguis aka
> *NeX*/-=FuQ=-
> "I hate self-righteous people"
> =============
> icq#61260713
> =============
>  -Damned Nation (beta)
> http://www.pukka.jolt.co.uk
>  -The Mysterious Youth (alpha)
> http://www.pukka.jolt.co.uk/html/tmy/intro.html
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Re: and where can I download Quake II?
#117
Author: joe crouse
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 00:03
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you totaly missed the point of his post
it was meant to be  bs  a person dumb enough to want to download all that  isnt
smart enough to understand  that its  bad  and would take a tremendous amount of
time

Glock64 wrote:

> Those calculations are wrong. Its game size / download speed = time
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> teraflops is one trillion mathematical operations per second. Download time
> is in size/second, not flops.
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> According to you, downloading that long at a rate of 5kb/sec which is around
> a 56K you would download 7600176GIGs or 7600.176terabytes of file, which
> surpasses even the largest personal hardrive. The average CD holds 750MB
> which is 10133568 times smaller than the above.
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> sanguis <sanguis@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
> news:q2dr6.19888$t1.2069656@news6-win.server.ntlworld.com...
> > "Granota" <granotaforever@ono.com> wrote in message
> > news:dVbr6.3549$Lt1.14747@newsr01.ono.com...
> > > Hello everybody, could anyone tell me how can I download the complete
> > game?.
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> > u just asked this in agq3. there is no way of downloading it. the game's
> cd
> > takes up 7500 Gigabytes per second an hour on a _good_ day, which is a
> rough
> > transfer rate of 5658terraflops so it would take approximately (/me pulls
> > out calculator) 482.3 centuries to upload. That's bearing in mind the
> fastet
> > connection available out there is the super schmANET which only swanky
> > educational establishments have and is the equivalent of a 14.4k in
> america.
> > Believe me mate, unless you want to spend the next 500 years downloading
> > this game, it just ain't worth it.
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> > *NeX*/-=FuQ=-
> > "I hate self-righteous people"
> > =============
> > icq#61260713
> > =============
> >  -Damned Nation (beta)
> > http://www.pukka.jolt.co.uk
> >  -The Mysterious Youth (alpha)
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