On Friday 07 February 2003 10:30 pm, Chuck Burns wrote: > On Friday 07 February 2003 10:59 pm, K. Spress wrote: > > Thinking about this on a 56k phone dial up modem it would take 2 days > > straight at 5k per second? > > > > so at about 35k per second on a 256k dsl about 6.5 hours > > *snip* > my cablemodem is capped 1.5Mbps, the same as the most popular dsl speeds.. > and I can download a 700M CD image in less than an hour, with favorable > network conditions. For some of the "hokier" dsl services, that offer > 400kbps and 800kbs, you can just about double, to quadruple that..
My cable modem has a slightly different cap. 8 Mbps (mega BITS per second) download maximum, 1.5 Mbps upload max. The big marketing point locally is that DSL is "never shared bandwidth" while cable is. Yeak OK, so? What I get as my shared bandwidth from cable "at peak hours" is still higher than the best my downstairs neighbour gets from his DSL. The last ISOs I downloaded were Mandrake 9.1beta3. All three simultaneously, three different servers so I didn't "hog the bandwidth" from any individual mirror. The 3 images (all three are roughly 700 MB) were completed in 1 hour 23 minutes. A three ISO distribution download with this connection is usually between 1.5 and 3.25 hours depending only on available bandwidth at the mirror and internet traffic between here and <wherever> there. I can download them faster than I can generally burn them since my CD-RW is only a 4x4x24 Mitsumi. <g> Did someone say fast? Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 http://counter.li.org If a cow laughed real hard, would milk come out her nose? -- Why Why Why n°8
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