On Sun, 22 Apr 2007, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > On Sun 22 Apr 2007 05:38:30 NZST +1200, Martin Schlander wrote: > > > But the problem is not the downloading of updated metadata, which usually > > takes a few seconds tops. > > Uhhm, you're talking about downloading the updates/repodata/*.xml.gz > files? For the 10.2 updates that's about 13MB currently. I'd be very > interested to hear how you download that over a dialup at a realistic > 3kbyte/s in "a few seconds tops". > > Volker
Well, Herr Kuhlmann, have you ever considered that the average dialup user wouldn't be stupid enough to try applying remote updates over his link? Unless he was incredibly desperate not to have his Apache server hacked XD Almost ALL computers these days have a broadband connection of some form. Yes, I'm not proud that I used a 33.6k modem up until January 19 2006, but one of the first things i did on my broadband link was download a new distro (i'd been using Fedora Core 4, and as you can imagine it traumatised me for life.) - There's just NO excuse to use a dial-in narrowband data link for anything more than ssh these days. Cheap and plentiful data pipes are available in every developed country of the world - EMBRACE THEM! :D by the by, 13MB on my cable modem? it's demolished in one minute. -- /"Horst Günther Burkhardt III"-------------------\ | There's no place like localhost (127.0.0.1) | | http://peanuthorst.livejournal.com/ <- blog | \-----------------------------<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/
