> I get about 500 to 550 MB's/hour from decent sites with a > 1.5Megabit adsl line (~150K/sec). DSL connections also vary quite a > bit, from half my speed to almost twice as fast. The mirror you use,
My DSL is 384k-1.5 megabyte variable, nat fixed. All that's guaranteed is the 384k and I don't think I've ever seen the line drop below that, but as you say, the speed is highly variable. I've had good results from Netherlands mirrors, of all places (nluug.nl) and it's my primary source for cooker stuff. olf's site in CA (the penguin liberation front) though is very slow - a couple of K per second. By comparison, nluug is roughly 150k or more per second. Last time I downloaded 9.0 CD images I think it took maybe 3-4 hours or so per CD. BTW, I don't have a burner - I botched my first install of 9.0, so someone was kind enough to burn a 0.0 CD. However you need disk 2 and 3, so I got them as ISOs and have them loopback mounted for file access. As far as the spped of various hosts go, I suppose one can write a script that does the comparisons, and then picks the fastest mirror. I got a script that's designed for CVS mirrors, specifically for KDE, but it could I suppose be tailored for cooker and/or Mandrake mirrors. > I recently d/l weren't on the mirror yet, so I had to get 'em one at > a time as they appeared. Worst way is to use a browser to d/l. I do nearly all my downloading via ncftp. I've also used cvs and rsync in the past. > Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
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