On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 14:46, Sanjeev "Ghane" Gupta wrote: > On Thursday, August 14, 2003 4:03 PM [GMT+0800=SGT], > Ambar Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Most people on this list are from delhi! I have not seen many > > places in delhi where you have enough bw to download debian > > packages off the net ( Even a 2mbps link starts to look slow > > when u do that! > > 600MB * 8 / 2Mbps = 40mins > > Assuming, of course, 2Mbps is 2Mbps. However even in a Datacenter with 100 Mbps link at your disposal you never exceed a download speed of greater than 50-60 KiloBytes(not kilobits) per second. Thats because the mirror from which you download an ISO image doesn't have that much bandwidth available for a single user at any point of time. Infact some of the busy mirrors wouldn't allow software like prozilla to login on all fours for the same reason. However Debian has a method called jigdo which allows you to update your old ISO images to new ones in a jiffy ( practically ). -Tarun Dua -- http://www.tarundua.net Nothing you ever wanted to find about Tarun Dua
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