t1 versus cabel/modem

[Lorenzo Prince]

Here's an interesting thing that happened to me.  I am supposed to,
according to the cable company, have a 1.5 Mbit connection.  Back when I
was using Winblos, I couldn't get anywhere near that.  I usually could
only download at about 13KB/s.  Then I discovered Linux!  Wow!  Suddenly
I am downloading at over 230KB/s nearly all the time.  Is Linux just that
good for connecting to the internet or is there another explanation for
this?  Whatever it is, I am enjoying it.

Lorenzo

E Pluribus Unix

On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Glenn Ervinat home wrote:

> I have a cable connection, and I am only using half speed, to save 5 bucks a
> month, and I download at around 75 to 80 KB per second.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "monte single" <mrsingle at shaw.ca>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 4:51 PM
> Subject: t1 versus cabel/modem
>
>
> How does the download rate of  t1 compare to cabel modem. On my cable modem
> connection I think I
> depends a lot on where I am downloading from. Sometimes I may only get
> twenty or thirty kbs/s. When I
> downloaded redhat 8.0 from limestone.oregon.edu----i think that was it, it
> was more like 360 kbs/s.
>
> Gregory Nowak wrote:
>
> > Thanks to everyone for their reply.
> >
> > Thanks to Aaron for recommending the planetmirror site, and for the backup
> on that recommendation.
> >
> > I'm downloading the iso from there right now as I write this.
> >
> > Having t1 is indeed very nice (smile).
> > Regards,
> > Greg
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 03:32:01AM -0500, Jacob Schmude wrote:
> > > Hi
> > > Oh, they're there, all right. On most of the slackware mirrors, but the
> > > servers are so loaded down you're gonna have a fun time getting them.
> Hope
> > > you got a broadband connection, because if you're stuck with 56K (like I
> > > am) you probably don't have a chance for another month or so when all
> these
> > > broadband users get done grabbing there isos. The best URL seems to be
> the
> > > one on planetmirror which was given here earlier, but as I said... good
> > > luck getting ahold of it. Of course, if you want to, you can make your
> own
> > > iso image (instructions are found in isolinux/README.txt on slackware
> 9.0
> > > mirror sites).
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > Jacob
> > >
> > >
> >
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