Re: [tlug] Japan Times Article on Linux

[Godwin Stewart <gstewart@example.com>]

On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 16:32:41 +0900 (JST), Charles Muller <acmuller@example.com>
squashed this out of the keyboard:

> For example "ten hours to download on DSL." I don't know what kind of
> connection he has, but on my DSL I got all five RH 8.0 images in three
> hours.

You're relatively lucky in Japan. Elsewhere, DSL is usually capped at
512Kbps or 1Mbps sometimes. And that's the downlink... Uplink is more
often than not capped at 128Kbps.

At that speed, it does take about 3 hours to get *ONE* .iso image.

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