Here's an interesting thing that happened to me. I am supposed to, according to the cable company, have a 1.5 Mbit connection. Back when I was using Winblos, I couldn't get anywhere near that. I usually could only download at about 13KB/s. Then I discovered Linux! Wow! Suddenly I am downloading at over 230KB/s nearly all the time. Is Linux just that good for connecting to the internet or is there another explanation for this? Whatever it is, I am enjoying it. Lorenzo E Pluribus Unix On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Glenn Ervinat home wrote: > I have a cable connection, and I am only using half speed, to save 5 bucks a > month, and I download at around 75 to 80 KB per second. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "monte single" <mrsingle at shaw.ca> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 4:51 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 >
