Another place with lots of bandwidth you might be able to score from is Portland State University. I haven't tried (I have decent bandwidth at home), but if I was looking for tubes, that's a place that comes to mind.
On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 4:21 PM Mike C. <[email protected]> wrote: > What is giving you the estimate? > > -- Browser download manager. But I also can see how much of the distro has > been downloaded after an hour. > > Sometimes the slow download is more a matter of which mirror you got > sent to. If you can specify one, you might be able to "shop around" for > one that's reasonably fast. > > -- This is true and I'm used to this from my Debian mirror days. You could > actually run a test to figure out which was the best / fastest mirror based > on your internet location. For example, I'd often pull from U of O. > > It seems now that most of the lesser well known & used distros don't have a > mirror speed test and they're distributing via Sourceforge and other > mainstream software download sites. > > But it's probably worth testing all the different download sites the next > time I'm at the Library. Perhaps one will be significantly faster. > > -- Mike > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
