On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> And not that much even with that:
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 bright staff 647815168 Dec 28 19:23 3.4-install.iso
> -rw-r--r-- 1 bright staff 625839147 Dec 28 19:23 3.4-install.iso.gz
I never thought I'd see the day that when considering sizes of downloads
people would look at a saving of 22Mb, and would say 'that's not much'...
Fair enough, as a percentage it's marginal... but in countries where
internet access is not cheap, in fact is prohibitively slow and expensive
(the majority of the planet), I think this saving shows a little respect
and concern for the less fortunate home user stuck with a 56K modem paying
$x/hour where x can be anywhere between 0.5 and 5...
> that's not gzip -9, but I think I've done that in the past to the
> disks and it still didn't help all that much.
If you save 20Mb, over a reliable 56Kb modem, you've saved them somewhere
in the region of one and a half hours... I think you guys are too used to
your broadband... :)
Let's also assume that a mirrored FTP site is limited to XGb/mth... all it
would take is for a 100 downloads to cause an extra 2Gb of that to be
taken up....
Personally, I feel that everything that can be compressed for download,
should be. It would speed up downloads, would be more economical in terms
of bandwidth, cost and time, and I think would be generally considered
respectful for those users with crappy links.
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Paul Robinson - Developer/Systems Administrator @ Akitanet Internet
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