To be clear, I mean you can go on campus at PSU and connect to their guest wifi.
On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 5:09 PM Russell Senior <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
