Let's call it boredom. I wanted to see how fast I could download a file, as I have pretty good internet and wanted to see how fast it would actually go. For the record I have 1.2gb Fiber both up and down, I'm 2 feet from the source cable, and my cord is less than a foot long coming out of the router. Different speed tests has me clocked all over the place, but here is an example from 1 minute ago from that ookla website, download packets from Miami, the closest major city.
My wife is watching the debates on sling, and my son is upstairs hacking the planet. I could run this 100 times and get wildy different results so I just went with the first one.
I then tried to download some test files from various sites, but their hosting is awful and could not keep up with what I'm throwing down. The best I got was 10.4mbps. I decided to do something LEGAL. I'm going to partially download a movie file from a torrent. A movie that I've already paid to own a copy of. Go here to read the legality of downloading a copy of media book or movie that you already own. For the record, I bought the movie Bladerunner 2049 when it was first available digitally, I'm a huge fan, and own the first edition signed of "Do Andriods Dream of Electric Sheep". Previously, my wife has given me shit for downloading torrented movies, as they send you an email, whether you owned the game/movie/book or not, they don't know, they just sent the email anyways.
I'm not going to post screen shots of the download, but let's just say, I documented a 31.7mbps download from a torrent of said movie, and stopped the download at 17%. I selected delete data and torrent, and went on my merry way. I never downloaded the whole file. The real experiement, which I'm not sure I want to know or not, is whether we get the email of death in the morning for legally downloading a movie I already own, and I get yelled at by my wife. Of course I saved a screen shot of me only downloading 17% of the file. Of course I'm playing with fire, and by fire, I mean the consequences of an irate wife who has warned me several times before not to do this exact thing.
But.. I had to know.
*Edit*
It did not get me in trouble. Not sure why, but my wife is not mad at me.. for this.
