Subject: [users] Download time for open office
Could you please tell me how big the Open Office download is. I have
been
downloading 5 hours on dial up!
Thanks
David Morgan
David, how fast is your Internet Connection?
To find out, if you do not know, go to this site.
http://www.speedtest.net/
Also when you download the file you should see the numbers.
Many times it is slower than your max speed, due to the
speed of the server and the number of people downloading
at the same time.
The total for the file is about 130 meg.
If your speed is 56K then lets do the math.
56k = 0.056 m/sec though it could be faster line 128k = 0.128 m/sec
130 meg / 0.056 = 2322 seconds (rounded up)
2322 sec = 38.7 minutes.
But the math can be totally wrong
at 90k/sec, it takes 24 min
at 118k/sec it takes 18 min
these figures are from test downloads at 01:24 UTC (universial time) May 6th
but during the downloading, the rates change.
So the answer is, it all depends.
I would try downloading the file after 9pm local time
Also you can try
http://download.openoffice.org/other.html#en-US
or look into the mirror sites
http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors/#archive
PLEASE keep trying. It is worth it.
even if you have to download it all night (which should not happen)
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