Hey, where I live I only get dialup so i would like to know the sizes of all the demos available at marketplace since ill be downloading though dial-up. I would basically like to know a list of all the small sized demos available (excluding the arcade ones)

not 100% sure but i think arcade games are 50mb and game demos are like 1 gig.

arcade are usually around 25-30mb

games range from 500mb to 1.3gb, but most are around the 600-800 mark.

i would listen to Grentz, sounds like they know from experience dude.

Some of the larger demos (600 megs on up) aren't actually that large when you download them. The PREY demo was reported to be 1.3gigs, but the actual bandwidth I used when downloading it was only about 800 megs, though it took up 1.3gigs after downloading. 500 megabytes is much larger than the NTFS formatting space "increase", so I think it was compressed.

Still, on dialup, that's fucking huge.

hey, can you guys list Demos you have downloaded in the Past and the Size, Im looking for demos around the 100MB - 300MB I currently only have COD2 and i beat it like twice in V-mode) and im waitin for my other games that got delayed So i feel bad leaving my xbox360 picking up dust. So i just wanted to download ANY demo thats small enough for me to download in a day (not having to leave my xbox 360 on for more than 12 hours) anybody know any demos that are around the 100MB to 300MB?

none of the demos are 100mb but i think the new nhl 07 demo is around 300 mb

cant you look? you sound like you have some way to connect to live, when you click on the demo info it tells you the size, surely you can do that on your own...

If you dial-up, you're wasting your time. Game demos are all huge.

might be a good idea to buy an OXM magazine?

These are the only ones I know of around the limits you listed:
Fuzion Frenzy demo is a bit over 200 MB, and Lost Planet, F.E.A.R., G.R.A.W. (online version), and BF2 demos are each over 300 MB but under 400 MB.

Here is a list of all the marketplace content... click a title to see the size
http://www.achieve360points.com/live/

according to that site the average game demo is 450MB and the average XBLA game is 25MB

Assuming the full bandwidth of 56K it would take you ~18.25 hours to snatch an average demo and as much as 92 hours to snatch the largest game demo, it would take you ~1.1 hours to snatch an average XBLA game and as much as 2 hours to snatch the largest XBLA game.

So XBLA games are do-able but I wouldn't bother with game demos... just order a subscription to OXM.

on dialup 100mb would take days... get a subsciption to oxm ( offical xbox magazine) with disc and you will get most of the same demos

Actually 100MB would only take about 4.5 hours (at full 56K)

Even still I agree that an OXM subscription would be best.

Since FCC regulations prevent full 56K speeds, Moby Dick may be best

whenever i connect to dial up (damn you bell canada) i get usually 52kbps, which isnt far off of 56 so it wouldnt take that much longer

ahh, yes... i remember the old days of xbox live over dialup... i could only download stuff, cept play halo 2 - it was the only game i could get to connect over dialup...

then i latched onto my neighbors wireless signal... much better, and FREE!

now, i just pay $17.99 a month for DSL. (verizon)

you know what i did when i needed to? I packed up my 360 in a backpack, brought it to the Library or the Community college near me (when it was dead quiet - the CC computer lab during summer was totally dead) and hooked up my 360 to the internet, and used the VGA cable to connect to the monitors there. then i could download at fast speeds.

or go to a firends house.

but serously... there is no reason to not have any access to High speed. possibly at school?

Actually all of my estimates are based on real world "56K" results

If you were to run the calculations you'd find that true 56K would be even faster.

FCC = United States.