Any alternate download sites for speakup ftp?

[Al Puzzuoli]

Hi john,

The confusion comes in here because  when companies offer speed clames, they 
do so measured in kBytes, and when  downloading  a program, your speed is 
typically displayed in kbits.  I'm no expert but the way I understand it is 
as follows:
You can roughly ascertain the rate of speed you would  obtain from the 
advertised KByte number by dividing by 8.  So for example, if your service 
advertises 768 KByte up, you divide that by 8 and get 96.  This means that 
in an ideal scenario, if there were no overhead packets and your connection 
were perfect, you would get 96 kbits per second.  However if you account for 
real world factors and overhead,you need to subtract a bit more from 96, 
hense putting you right about at where you are, 70.  I don't know if there 
are better formuli out there to account for the overhead.

Things become even more confusing because  when heard with speech, bothKb 
and kb sound exactly the same.


Hope this makes some sense.

--Al



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John McCann" <lists at jamsite.us>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 6:42 PM
Subject: Re: Any alternate download sites for speakup ftp?


> Al wrote:
>
> "Right now, I'm getting about 70KB/s and it's estimating roughly 2 hours 
> and
> 30 mins for the first disk.  At this rate, I'll have them all before i 
> would
> have had even one from the speakup server.
>
> Interesting; 70kbps is about what I was seeing when I was downloading 
> images
> from Bill Acker's site; when the speakup site was down.
>
> Glad I'm able to help, but it is a bit disheartening to hear about 
> download
> speeds of 70kbps when my ISP (cox business services) touts an upload
> capability of 768kbps; i.e., on paper, the throughput is fully 10% of what
> it should be, or could ultimately be. Now, that having been said, the best
> throughput I was ever able to achieve by connecting to Bill's site was
> 370-380kbps, meaning that it took about a half hour to download one disk
> image.
>
> Anybody have any thoughts on why the download speed is as slow as it is, 
> or
> any thoughts on how to improve it? Am now using a pentium 4 machine, 
> 2.53GHz
> processor, 512MB of ram. The current plan is to upgrade this machine 
> within
> the next two weeks.
>
> John
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Al Puzzuoli" <alpuzz at comcast.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 5:29 PM
> Subject: Re: Any alternate download sites for speakup ftp?
>
>
>> Thanks a lot!
>>
>> I just started downloading disk 1.  Right now, I'm getting about 70KB/s
>> and it's estimating roughly 2 hours and 30 mins for the first disk.  At
>> this rate, I'll have them all before i would have had even one from the
>> speakup server.
>>
>>
>> --Al
>>
>>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "John McCann" <lists at jamsite.us>
>> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
>> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>> Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 4:43 PM
>> Subject: Re: Any alternate download sites for speakup ftp?
>>
>>
>>> Hi Al:
>>>
>>> You wrote:
>>>
>>> "For some reason, the speakup ftp server is severely slow.  I am using
>>> broadband, Comcast to be exact, and each disk is taking 15 to 20 hours 
>>> to
>>> complete."
>>>
>>> Tell me about it! I had that same experience over the President's day
>>> weekend; i.e., last weekend when I downloaded the 02/19/2005 set of four
>>> disks.
>>>
>>> And you continue:
>>>
>>> "Is there any alternate way to get these files, either from another
>>> server, a torrent, etc?"
>>>
>>> I've put them on my FTP server, and would love to know what kind of
>>> download speeds one gets when taking them from my site.
>>>
>>> Go to:
>>>
>>> ftp.jamsite.us/linux
>>>
>>> and give it a try. If you do, would you please respond (on or off list)
>>> with a report on the transfer rate?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
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