On May 4, 2010 10:49:34 pm Gustin Johnson wrote: > On 10-05-04 10:25 PM, Alastair Preston wrote: > > On May 4, 2010 05:12:12 pm [email protected] wrote: > >> ftp://ubuntu.arcticnetwork.ca/pub/ubuntu/releases/ > > >> 9s -- > > > > Wow, what sort of connection are you using? It usually takes about 78 > > minutes to download a CD iso on my DSL connection. > > On my Shaw connection I get the following (with traffic shaping enabled > on my router). > > $ wget > ftp://ubuntu.arcticnetwork.ca/pub/ubuntu/releases/10.04/ubuntu-10.04-altern > ate-amd64.iso --2010-05-04 22:39:44-- > ftp://ubuntu.arcticnetwork.ca/pub/ubuntu/releases/10.04/ubuntu-10.04-altern > ate-amd64.iso => `ubuntu-10.04-alternate-amd64.iso' > Resolving ubuntu.arcticnetwork.ca... 64.59.140.91 > Connecting to ubuntu.arcticnetwork.ca|64.59.140.91|:21... connected. > Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! > ==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done. > ==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /pub/ubuntu/releases/10.04 ... done. > ==> SIZE ubuntu-10.04-alternate-amd64.iso ... 719499264 > ==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR ubuntu-10.04-alternate-amd64.iso ... done. > Length: 719499264 (686M) > > 100%[====================================================================== > ==========================>] 719,499,264 1.59M/s in 7m 30s > > 2010-05-04 22:47:14 (1.52 MB/s) - `ubuntu-10.04-alternate-amd64.iso' > saved [719499264]_______________________________________________
What service level are you at that you get 1.52 MB/s?? What I get on the DSL is 160k/sec, using Telus's standard DSL package. My S-I-L, who was on Shaw but switched to Telus DSL over support issues, hasn't noticed much difference in speed between the two. Al Preston _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
