billy.chow wrote: > Doing a sizable install with PPP is rather impractical even with a > 28.8K, isn't it? For a average FTP rate of 1.5k, 50Mb packages requires > ~9 hours! May be it's time to invest on a CD-ROM drive. Hey, back in the day it used to take that long just to download a floppy disk full of 16-color nudie pics. 9 hours works out to ``start the download, brush teeth, go to bed, get up, eat breakfast, get dressed, quit ftp.'' Bill Gribble