Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (328 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Richard (MQ) wrote:

> Per Jessen wrote:
>
> > I'm just now downloading the i586 DVD via cdn.novell.com (via an
> > akamai site in Germany - I've got a fairly steady downstream rate of
> > +400kb/sec, occasionally hitting 500kb/sec, but also with lengthy
> > periods with less than 100kb/sec.  I'll let you know what the total
> > time is when it's done in about 4 hours.
> > I think the local Switch mirror would be faster though.
>
>
> Lucky you! My supposedly 8 Mbps ADSL connection managed 400 kBps
> (~4Mbps) for an hour or so early yesterday evening before dropping to
> 100 kBps (~1Mbps) consistently overnight. That's the total link
> traffic with aria2c simultaneously getting the 3 DVD images, mainly by
> torrents.

My ADSL is nominally 5632/640kbps - the numbers I qouted are for a
straight HTTP download - I feel certain a torrent would be slower.


/Per Jessen, Zürich

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