Certainly will cost more. The problem with cable can be, that you have to compete with everyone else on your network segment for bandwidth. There is no such problem with T1s. Talk to me if you need a quote on the cost, etc., of a T1--I can price one for your area, and can usually get good rates. Some of what you might be seeing, however, may be the lags of the remote sites. Luke On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, erik burggraaf wrote: > 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 at shaw.ca> > 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 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
