On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Ray Rashif <schivmeister@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 31 May 2010 14:11, Madhurya Kakati <mkakati2805@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan <lists@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Isaac Dupree >>> <ml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> On 05/30/10 04:50, Madhurya Kakati wrote: >>>>> >>>>> @nilesh you might try out #archlinux on irc.freenode.net. Its realtime >>>>> chat and a great way of getting problems sorted out. >>>> >>>> yes, Nilesh, you should try use the IRC channel, it's probably a better >>>> place to ask lots of questions without annoying people (with lots of little >>>> separate e-mails) as much. And there tend to be people there who throw you >>>> various answers too! >>>> >>>> (It's a pity your bandwidth makes it hard for you to just try softwares... >>>> maybe some of your questions can be answered by Google-searching though?) >>>> >>>> -Isaac >>>> >>> >>> >>> I have used #archlinux many times, but the problem is it drags me. I >>> have projects to do and if I go to some IRC channel then I just don't >>> know when the time is over. So I normally avoid IRC. >>> Also its not the bandwidth issue, I have unlimited bandwidth. Its the >>> speed. I get a maximum transfer speed of 16 kilobytes per second ! >>> >>> -- >>> Nilesh Govindarajan >>> Facebook: nilesh.gr >>> Twitter: nileshgr >>> Website: www.itech7.com >>> >> >> Thats a pity. I get 256kBps but 2.5 gb limit :( > > LOL, talk about speed. I feel ya! > > I've been across and in-between Asia's developing nations since the > beginning of the year for a project, and so far India and China were > the least painful with regards to getting up and connected to the WWW. > Pakistan has unstable speeds, and so does Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan. > But now we have proper accomodation, and this place has a really great > 256 ADSL connection that gets speeds like a 512. Not too bad, I just > need to imagine the year is 2003 =p > > But yeah, it was sort of eye-opening for me since back home > (Singapore) I have a 12Mbps cable and 1Mbps HSDPA on-the-go. With > 16KB/s I've met people who actually have gigabytes of downloaded > illegal content, so speed is not really a barrier for some. > > The best you could do is take it slow. As in, download today, try, > download tomorrow, try :) Google is, of course, there for you anytime. > > > -- > GPG/PGP ID: B42DDCAD > You got the right point :D But I have projects do during the day time so many times need Google fast. So downloading during the day is not a viable solution. Yeah I can Ctrl-C wget then wget -c, but that's an extra effort. I usually download during night and at times when I am not in front of the computer. -- Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: nilesh.gr Twitter: nileshgr Website: www.itech7.com
