Re: Red Hat user shopping around
On Thu, 9 May 2002, Glen Lee Edwards wrote:
> >> have an ADSL line that will allow 66+ kB/s downloads, assuming the site I'm
> >> accessing can handle it. If the perl dependencies in your example install
> >> without breaking other dependencies, I'm good to go.
> >
> >Jeez...I'm so glad I'm back on cable. 66kbps is infuriatingly slow...
> Actually that's KBytes - or 528 kBits/second. The line is rated at 640 kb/s
> download, but slightly over 520 is what I usually get. That allows me to
> download a full cdrom in about 2 1/2 hours. I just download the 3 CDRom Red Hat
> 7.3 distro in less than 8 hours. Took weeks on my old 14.4 modem.
Erk, I meant 66kBps. Any time I've pulled less than 130 kBps on cable
I've had all my roommates were awake at the same time and had people
over with thier computers, or the server I was connecting to just didn't
have the bandwidth to send to me that quickly. My DSL experiance wasn't
good: Installation took forever. It crapped out constantly. Repairs
took forever. It was bloody expensive compaired to cable (about $5 more
a month than cable based on time, and more than that based on uptime,
and more than that based on bytecount.)
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