DaWei

We can only judge your dumbassedness by your words; you didn't send an official transcript from an unbiased agency.

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stevengs

quite the diplomat, David is. Apon careful observation, you'll notice, at no time did he actually call anyone a dumbass.

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hervens48

nice idea, you should try making it urself instead of giving those buiseness mens ideas to get richer

angry_asian

yeah it is a pretty good idea but he may get some suggestions by posting here

Marvin

It sounds like a good idea, more of a device for the gadget kids.

Tell you the truth i used to download over dialup over night, but that was only 200 meg or so and it never happend that much.

On broadband there is now 8mbit speed. Thats about 900KB/s in real terms, 50Meg/min, 3 gig per hour. If you need to download something overnight it must be huge now days. Ok this is with best speed. In worst case its still about 1Gig per hour. I suppose if your downloading some video(wont say what type lol) then it might still take 3 hours, but thats still acceptable IMO.

I cant see most user needing this in this day and age. If it was around 5 years+ ago then i would have got one for one just so i could run a 56K download overnight and forget about it.

It would have to be cheaper than the electricity need to run the computer for 10 hours overnight x 50(number of times you might want to do this). Anything more than £30 ~ $50 would be not worth it.

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angry_asian

i disagree. i have DSL 768
and my download speeds are 80KB/s
281.25MB/hr, not 1GB/hr
for that you would need 1.5mbps or higher

Marvin

Well i get 250KB+ per second on 2Mbit broadband. 8mbit is rolling out all over the UK. i can imagine 800KB/sec with 8Mbit. 8Mbit is not expensive any more(at least in the UK).

In the future it will only get faster, and with that the less need for a gadget like this.

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angry_asian

well am in the US, and most of the ppl in my area have dsl 256, 512 or 768. there is a 1.5 but it is expensive IMHO, and well...like i said the dling rates are from50KB to 80 like my connection to 100 or 150 on 1.5

Marvin

Still as i pointed out it has to be cheaper to buy than the electricity saved plus the electricity it takes to run it.

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angry_asian

yeah, i dont think it could be unless wholsale chinese high density flash memory gets cheaper