From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 26 16:21:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from syncopation-01.iinet.net.au (syncopation-01.iinet.net.au [203.59.24.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 16F2337B4EC for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 16:21:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from katinka@magestower.com) Received: (qmail 9819 invoked by uid 666); 27 Feb 2001 00:32:46 -0000 Received: from opera.iinet.net.au (HELO wskatinka) (203.59.24.144) by mail.m.iinet.net.au with SMTP; 27 Feb 2001 00:32:46 -0000 Message-ID: <023d01c0a053$235b7560$fe00a8c0@kat.lan> From: "Kathy Quinlan" To: Cc: "Aaron Hill" , , References: <017a01c0a01c$9b515120$fe00a8c0@kat.lan> <3A9AD224.D60C84B6@urx.com> Subject: Re: Order Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 08:20:48 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kent, In Australia our major telco classes an average line as one that can do 9600bps a good one can do 28800 bps. The law only tells them to make a line work at 9600bps anything better is great for us :o( Kathy. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kent Stewart" To: "Kathy Quinlan" Cc: "Aaron Hill" ; ; Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 6:01 AM Subject: Re: Order > > > Kathy Quinlan wrote: > > > > > Gail, > > > > > > It is possible to source both the FreeBSD CD and manual free from the > > > Internet but depending on your local available bandwidth and skill > > level(s) > > > you may find it more convenient to buy these items. > > > > I found that even with a 56Kbps line and getting frequent disconnection's, > > that I was able to download it in just over 80 hours :o) (Count down till > > ASDL available in my area and it is not coming soon enough) > > You chose a bad mirror and ADSL doesn't help then. I picked one of the > university mirror's over Thanskgiving and downloaded the iso in 2+ > hours but needed 8 or more from a busy site. I was seeing 20KB/s more > or less (frequently less) from ftp.freebsd.org and was seeing around > 90KB/s from Purdue. I think all of the students had gone home for > Thanksgiving. BTW, I thought 40 hours was terrible on a 56kb modem. > > Kent > > > > > Regards, > > > > Kathy Quinlan > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- > Kent Stewart > Richland, WA > > mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com > http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html > FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message