I have remarkably poor internet access in my apartment. It is supposed to be 1mb, (which would be bad enough) but it is constantly cutting out or getting 10k/s max.

(Money is not an issue. This is literally the fastest internet access I have available to me in this part of Iztapalapa.)

I have a work project that is coming up in about 2 months where I will need to download 420gb of video files and even if I utilise my inlaws internet access, it'd take me about a month to download (which is not at all acceptable)

Any one know a solution other than moving? Because it's it's currently out of the question.

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Some friends or family with better internet connection?

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Unfortunately, I have no geeky friends in Mexico City. I suppose I could ask some friends in the US, but i doubt most of them would want to go through the trouble.

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If only fedex offered the service to actually download the internet!

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get a better isp

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Obviously didnt read my post.

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i did but that is the most sensible solution, your city / place can not be limited to only one internet service provider

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Once again proving that you didn't read the post.

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so many trolls in this forum..

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You're one of them.

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nah im far from a troll,

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but you look pretty dumb right now with these posts. read the op

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Sure it can. Having an internet connection is not something that appears as if by magic.

Surely you remember the dial-up days?

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yes i remember 56k dial up. and i thought Australia was behind the times

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You clearly dont know how the world works.

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you spin my head right round right round

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It is. Telcel/Infinitum is the only company that services this area and they wont upgrade the network because it's a poor area.

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well then you will have to either find someone else with better net or move.

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And that is the whole purpose of the thread, you dumbwit.

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ok

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Never heard about this place.

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Yeah, forgot to mention that it's an area of Mexico City, not a City itself.

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Unless we are talking about illegal downloads, don't you think some of your American friends could be persuaded into helping you out? If you are paying cost, postage and some sort of compensation it shouldn't be that difficult. Of course I am not American so I have no clue if the general consensus is helpful with this sort of problem.

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It's nothing illegal, it's all on the companies server. Just got to login and download the files.

The biggest problem is trying to persuade my friends to download 420gb that would go against any cap they have. I have one friend without a cap that I know could do it, but their company pays for it and she doesnt like using it heavily for personal stuff.

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Hm. That does complicate things.

What about internet cafés near your area or just in Mexico City?

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The ones local to here have a 2mb line - i've had to use them when this one craps out and they really dont like you downloading stuff as it slows down everyones connection (but i think they hate it more because it slows THEIRS down)

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2mb ain't much either. It would still take forever to download 400+ gb.
Alternatively I'm sure you can find someone here who isn't going to swindle you out of your bucks.
I would offer, but I'm not located in the States so it would be kind of pointless.

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i can do that

L.E.: but u must pay for the hdd and the shipping and almost forgot..and the game itself

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There is no game in question here.

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then exclude the cost for that..just the shipping and the hdd itself

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Maybe you should ask somewhere and find someone in Iztapalapa with fast internet connection and ask him, if you could use the net to download (for a fee, ofc).

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Not a bad idea - if I can find someone here. I think i'd have more luck in the richer areas of the city, but they're also the same areas where you dont find many internet cafes or the like.

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Ask your ISP if they're offering enterprise connections (high speed ones, expensive, but reliable and fast), try downloading the files separately (one video in a neighbor's connection, then the other one, so on so forth), or consider the option of asking someone to download something and send it to you in an HD, if you cannot find another solution.

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The options are available, but not for this area. It's a relatively poor area (and we're living here for free in order to save up to buy a house)

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Have you tried looking for an internet cafe? I would be surprised if there wouldn't be a single internet cafe that can help you out in Mexico city.

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That would allow you to download 420GB of data? Doubtful.

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Without a doubt he would have to discuss it with the owner before doing such a thing but assuming that internet cafe's over there have no DL limit and he's willing to sweeten the deal a little bit, sure, why not?

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HDD 70usd
Shipping from US
15usd

So, pay someone 100 bucks to buy a drive, download it, and ship it to you. They make a profit and you get the stuff in around a week.

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Buy a server(to download files) then get this?>>nearest that I can find I heard before that they will actually ship the hard drive

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This could work. I'll check it out, thanks!

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If this is work for a company, can't the company ship this stuff to you on a hard drive? I mean, they want you to do the work, right?

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That's the first I thought, why don't ask them?

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well you could buy linux CDs, DVDs, pendrives which is basicly selling downloaded stuff on a storage
on topic try a library there used be a good internet connection

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I found free internet from Google, the speeds are up to 5mbs. It's also available anywhere you live, even if your outside the Unioted States. Clicky

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That was an april fools joke in 2007...

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You ruined it.

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I bet whatever company you work for wouldn't mind sending you an HDD with the files, even deducting it from your pay if they aren't feeling generous.

As another option, try visiting a local university and asking if you can piggyback off their network a couple of days, or even find someone there who's willing to do the work for you. Universities rarely have data caps, and can usually spare the bandwidth.

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shit, I'll do it for you if you trust me. 450 GB for me it's nothing, I just downloaded nearly 50 today xD

In Portugal, we can live like shit, but internet it's not an issue xD

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We, your neighbours, have a shitty connection.

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As we should still have. But Portuguese elitists love the new technologies, even if there's little money to spend. We have villages with fibre optic connection, 100/200 Mb w/ unlimited traffic. I'm still using a shitty connection.. 30 Mb coaxial, also w/ unlimited traffic, but I'll change soon to fiber optic too. xD

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