Question... how long are you guys taking to (dl)i.e. torrent this to your boxes?
I'm on cable internet... minimum guaranteed 12500kbps, and I was seeing DL rates up to 1.8G/s. I'm seeding now at 180k/s (my upstream is no where near my downstream). At those speeds it only took a couple hours to DL the entire set of isos (32 bit and 64 bit CDs and DVDs plus the addon CD). It was definitely faster for me to get the isos this way than to snag them by ftp. I plan on seeding for as long as is practical too So to answer your question... not very long at all :-)
Just curious.. there seems to be a major problem w/ BS dsl in the whole state of Florida, which they once blamed on ( take your choice )
DSL is limited by distance from the central office, and by the connection type within your house/business. The distance thing is roughly limited to 2km (with standard ADSL). Beyond that and you start getting so much signal degradation that it becomes unusable or unpractical. This may be the tree thing they were talking about... the tree being roughly 2km from the central office. Another possibility may be in your own house. If you installed your ADSL with a DIY kit from the ISP, you probably got splitters and a modem. if you have too many analog phones connected, and are using too many splitters/filters, you may be attenuating your ADSL signal strength so much that your performance/speed is non-existent. There's some interesting info on this here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adsl There may be some merit to the problem being on your side... but it's definitely NOT Linux. Linux cannot burn out your modem... or break the ADSL connection any more than any other OS. If Linux "broke the internet", then the internet would be in trouble since a considerable segment (more than half) the internet "runs" on Linux. C.