Hi, Call up your cable company, and ask what their network throughput is. This is a number between 256 Kbits per sec, and 2 m bits per second. It sounds like yours is somewhere between 1.3 and 2 megabits per second. Then, Hunt down a t1 provider. I suspect the network throughput on a t1 would be between 1 and 3 megabits persec, but will cost significantly more than cable. You guys can correct me if I go wrong here. The best we have here so far is adsl with a 3.5 meg network throughput. Maybe Pricy, though, fwew. Erik You need more space! Compare hard drives starting at $236 cdn for 120, $304 for 160, and $420 for 200 GB at 7200 RPM. http://www.mlhsystems.com/momex/NavCode/Hardware/ID/HardDrive/Affiliate/ERIK BURGGRA Convert to $US at http://www.xe.com/ucc ----- Original Message ----- From: monte single <mrsingle@xxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 5:51 PM Subject: t1 versus cabel/modem > How does the download rate of t1 compare to cabel modem. On my cable modem connection I think I > depends a lot on where I am downloading from. Sometimes I may only get twenty or thirty kbs/s. When I > downloaded redhat 8.0 from limestone.oregon.edu----i think that was it, it was more like 360 kbs/s. > > Gregory Nowak wrote: > > > Thanks to everyone for their reply. > > > > Thanks to Aaron for recommending the planetmirror site, and for the backup on that recommendation. > > > > I'm downloading the iso from there right now as I write this. > > > > Having t1 is indeed very nice (smile). > > Regards, > > Greg > > > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 03:32:01AM -0500, Jacob Schmude wrote: > > > Hi > > > Oh, they're there, all right. On most of the slackware mirrors, but the > > > servers are so loaded down you're gonna have a fun time getting them. Hope > > > you got a broadband connection, because if you're stuck with 56K (like I > > > am) you probably don't have a chance for another month or so when all these > > > broadband users get done grabbing there isos. The best URL seems to be the > > > one on planetmirror which was given here earlier, but as I said... good > > > luck getting ahold of it. Of course, if you want to, you can make your own > > > iso image (instructions are found in isolinux/README.txt on slackware 9.0 > > > mirror sites). > > > > > > Regards > > > Jacob > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
