Re: How much space does a Debian mirror take?
Timothy Phan wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Many thanks to all the nice people who have replied to my question.
>
> Regarding high speed connection, I've called my telco (GTE) about
> getting an ISDN line into my home and the response was not available.
> The GTE sale rep/operator said that ISDN is only available to business
> establishments only.
>
> Secondly, how much faster can I see between the 28.8 modem, ISDN,
> T1, T2 , etc. I'd also want to know what should I need from the
> ISP in order to setup the connection between my Debian/Linux box
> to the ISP. All the ISPs seem to support only WFW3.11/95/Mac/NT
> and not Linux.
>
> Also, how much faster if the the connection is PPP vs. SLIP or CSLIP?
>
Leaving compression aside,
28.8 modem 28.8 Kbps
ISDN 128 Kbps (64 Kbps/B-channel)
T1 1.44 Mbps (now we're talkin'!)
T2??? is there any such thing?
T3 38.4 Mbps (oh baby!)
SMDS hmm, I think you can get up to 100Mbps
frame-relay 64 Kbps to 1.44 Mbps
DS1 56 Kbps
I imagine SLIP may actually be slighly faster due to decreased overhead
for packet encapsulation. However, PPP can handle multiple protocols,
multi-plex channels, is more robust, etc. etc. so I would recommend
PPP.
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Jens B. Jorgensen
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