No matter what you use it's going to depend on the speed of the person you're downloading. so if they have a slower connection then you you'll download at their speed no matter how fast your connection is. -- A message from the system administrator: "I've upped my priority, now up yours!" On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, monte single wrote: > 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 >
