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Date:      Mon, 14 Oct 2002 07:54:19 -0700
From:      "George" <flog.nish@verizon.net>
To:        <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: Old port recompiles needed (Re: Unknown symbol"__sF")
Message-ID:  <009201c27391$93d299a0$0300a8c0@corvette>
References:  <3DA9EA62.D337E8A0@mindspring.com>	<20021014114320A.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>	<20021014032931.GB23539@carbon.slackerbsd.org> <20021014124541A.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> <3DAA599D.67FC2DB1@mindspring.com>

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> Makoto Matsushita wrote:
> > carl> 3.4 hours is a lot of time on a dial-up connection (granted it
> > carl> is not a one size fits all period of time).
> >
> > You forget that you still compressed image with about 30 hours (at
> > least, full 1 day or more), and it is not helpful for ordinal users,
> > not you.
> >
> > Again, reducing hours/percentages with compressed image doesn't
> > matter; please focus total download time which is actually needed for
> > all users.  Missing the point is not helpful for the discussion.
>
> I downloaded the image over a 28.8K modem.
>
> If you have access to the FTP logs, the duration of the connection
> times could be digested to see the connection speed for each download
> request for the file.
>
> -- Terry
>
Haven't you guys burnt enough bandwidth on something that nothing will be
done about?  It's kind of hard to pick out the important posts when
cluttered with all this noise.  Eh?
George


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