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Originally Posted by Slavakion
Once, on AOL of all places, I hit 23 kb/s on a DC hub. Too bad the file was corrupted. I probably wasn't even downloading that fast, just getting garbage. But I can dream!
*pats cable modem*
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I've seen this on dialup too. It's from intentionally corrupted files that are full of nothing but spaces. Since all modern modems have built-in compression and that kind of data compresses really well, you get a much faster download. Not that it really does you any good though!