On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Harry Rickards <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 3 May 2009, at 21:18, David King <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I was watching the BBC News 24 TV programme "Click" broadcast this >> weekend. When they were testing a 100 Mbit/s broadband connection, >> they >> used it to download two copies of Ubuntu 9.04 simultaneously. A good >> advert for Ubuntu. > > Just out of interest, how long did it take?
It showed only a short segment of the download, demonstrating that the download speed was about 77Mbps. It appeared that the issue of choosing the Ubuntu ISO had to do with the availability of a fast distribution server, so one can put together a simple benchmark. Still, this was good. If you get 'get_iplayer' (http://linuxcentre.net/iplayer), then you can download the episode with get_iplayer --get 128 (expires on the 10th May) Simos -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
