Re: [newbie] Thank you for the estimate on downloading LM9.0

2003-02-08 Thread Charlie
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

Re: [newbie] Thank you for the estimate on downloading LM9.0

2003-02-08 Thread Charlie
On Saturday 08 February 2003 10:07 am, Charlie wrote: snip 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

[newbie] Thank you for the estimate on downloading LM9.0

2003-02-07 Thread cheysaynoway Pena
I am the first in the area to have broadband and SBC is the first to reach our neighborhood. Local cable has been promising for two years they would have their system ready for us. I am pleased to say that my connection compared to others with DSL is the fastest so far and if I am looking

Re: [newbie] Thank you for the estimate on downloading LM9.0

2003-02-07 Thread K. Spress
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 Kenneth E. Spress Specializing In Internet Services that Linux Users Prefer Interested In Saving Money on Local and Long Distance

Re: [newbie] Thank you for the estimate on downloading LM9.0

2003-02-07 Thread Chuck Burns
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