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Jerry McAllister writes:

>  Basically, that is what I do.  I only have a regular old phone
>  modem at home.  I take my home machine in to the office where I
>  have a reliable 100 Mb/s and do my installs there.  The only
>  problem is fixing up IPs and host names.

	Before I got cable, I had a cron job which would dial my ISP in
the wee hours of the morning, download the evening's updates, and
disconnect.   Only rarely did this take more than a couple of hours,
even at 28.8 kbits/sec.


			Robert Huff