hi all, Am Montag, 15. Oktober 2001 22:45 schrieb Timothy R.Butler:
Hi Karol,
IMO, it's a great idea. I don't see many distros doing this, however. Any generic reasons why?
Probably the biggest reason would be most people don't have broadband... but I can't see any harm in offering it. It would be interesting to see if someone knows any other reason(s).
yes, i know another reason : the bandwidth on suse's side of the thing. just an example : lets say, 10 people are d/l'ing with an adsl connection, which has approx. 768 kbit in the direction to the user. thus, suse needs at least an 8 mbit dedicated line to only serve this ten users. and what if you have 100 people ?? with the 8mbit line, everyone would be degraded almost to normal isdn speed .... and, as you all should know, high-speed leased lines to the inet cost alot of money. and i guess that there wouldnt be enough money flowing in to offer that service. another thing is the d/l time....... if there are many people d/l'ing the stuff, you better install from floppys than via ftp, as it would become way toooo slow .... and, if someone d/l's the stuff more than once, the calculation gets even worse. what is someone gets the stuff, lets say, 5 times ??? it potentially will block 4 other d/l's then ...... greets, chris -- visit me at http://mamalala.de