Around Fri,Oct 18 2002, at 11:13, Dexter Graphic, wrote: > On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 22:01, Larry Price wrote: > > What problem are you trying to solve, is it that you don't have the > > bandwidth and don't want to get stuck with your phone line occupied, > > or is it that don't have the disk space? > > I want to apply any system security updates that have come out since > Woody was released in July. The problem is downloading 28 MB on my > 28.8 kbs connection. > ( 28 MB * 1024 KB/MB * 8 kb/KB ) / ( 28.8 kb/s * 360 s/h ) = 22 hours > > Did I figure this right? It seems awfully long? I would have estimated > 10 hours based on experience with smaller downloads. >
try: total bits / modem bps= total seconds (28MB * 8) / 28800 = 7777.78 7777.78/(60*60)=2.16 hours -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From /usr/bin/fortune: This fortune is encrypted -- get your decoder rings ready! _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
