Well, I never notice to much signal loss on my 2 meg cable, but for the same price I could switch to 1.3 and 1.5 mb adsl's. Think I should do it? Just to keep this on topic, How would that effect my linux box? Cable is auto-detected under both windows and linux. Adsl, though, tipicly comes with proprietary software that establishes connections, and they don't seem to like linux too much. I know it's possible, just need a pointer in the right direction. Cheers, Erik BTW, those hd prices are lower as of a day or two ago. Gues ss it's time to mod my sig, lol. 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: Joseph C. Lininger <jbahm@xxxxxxxxxx> To: Speakup List <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 7:15 PM Subject: Re: t1 versus cabel/modem > T1 line is signifficantly more expensive. They're designed for business. A > T1 has a throughput of 1.5 MBPS. This is a garenteed rate, and it is > always available. With cable, you share your bandwidth with everyone on > the same line as you. > > -- > Joseph C. Lininger > jbahm at pcdesk.net > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
