slackware 10.0 is out

[Alex Snow]

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I'm on cable with 2mbps? 3mbps? it changes daily) downstream and 
128kbps up. all those are in kilobits per second.
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 
05:00:41PM -0500, Gregory Nowak wrote:
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> Wait a minute ... something just occurred to me. Alex, are you on
> cable, and Steve, are you on DSL, or should I say ADSL? If Alex is on
> cable, and he's getting these wooping 120 KbpS speeds, and if Steve is
> on ADSL, and he's getting dial-up speeds like me, then it would seem
> that the upstream speed seems to be the big show stopper for Steve and
> I.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 04:25:58PM -0500, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> > How are you figuring out how many Kb/S it is? I get the following
> > output, and I'm not seeing that indicated anywhere. In fact, I'm not
> > sure what most of this stuff is supposed to represent.
> > 
> > slackware/slackware-10.0-source-d3: Spd: 3.4 KB/263  B Tot: 84.7
> > MB/29.2 MB [151:25:34 4%]
> > slackware/slackware-10.0-install-d1: Spd: 1.8 KB/2.2 KB Tot: 36.2
> > MB/15.5 MB [209:21:18 2%]
> > slackware/slackware-10.0-source-d4: Spd: 1.2 KB/1.5 KB Tot: 67.6
> > MB/46.5 MB [86:57:06 8%]
> > slackware/slackware-10.0-install-d2: Spd: 2.2 KB/3.1 KB Tot: 85.3
> > MB/26.2 MB [167:05:04 4%]
> > All: Spd: 8.6 KB/7.1 KB Tot: 273.8 MB/117.4 MB
> >  
> > All I know is that an hour ago, doing a 
> > 
> > du -sh slackware
> > 
> > showed me that the slackware directory is 100 Mb in size. Now, an hour
> > later it is at 120 Mb in size, which really makes me feel like I'm on
> > dial-up. Besides that, web browsing reaffirms the dial-up feeling. It
> > seems like maybe this program should be called bittrickle, instead of
> > bittorrent (LOL)?
> > What I mean is that it seems to be saturating my up/down streams,
> > without showing much as a result if that makes sense.
> > 
> > Greg
> > 
> > 
> 
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Just proving that the quickest way to solve the problem is to post a
whine to the newsgroups: within moments the solution presents itself to
me, and meanwhile my ass is hanging out on the Net... *sigh*... 
	-- Dave Phillips, dlphilp at bright.net, about problem solving via news
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