into electronic streams flowing thru the cosmos On Thursday 26 October 2006 9:41 am, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
William Gallafent <william@gallaf.net> writes:
Hi,
Just a note to say thanks to those who organised the availability of this install medium at http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/openSUS E-10.2-Beta1-DVD-x86_64.torrent
Glad to hear that it's welcome!
It's fairly torrential here already, saturating my home ADSL line in both directions :)
Please keep it running once it's downloaded! <snip> Question... how long are you guys taking to (dl)i.e. torrent this to your boxes? This copper wire dsl ( BellSouth) ''torrent" has been going since noon yesterday.. and still says it has mover than 7 hrs to go.. seems to me I could have downloaded this thing directly faster than that!
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 ) fiberglass wires , and distance from a tree that was designated the limit of the service ( I kid you not at all ) And currently they blame on weather, corruption of the modem ( they supply ) or maybe the wires or da dadah DAH! Linux ... somehow linux or the power of the wires is "frying the modem". Call me crazy, I don't buy it.. and in this case copper wired to the house is supposed to ensure that we are getting their fastest thru put ; we are in the center of the area they serve w/ this DSL system on our street. and as my results above show, w/ only my email account picking up the mail every 2 hrs during daytimes and 6 hrs at night, I I find it silly for them to blame the OS.. I don't see how anything is frying the modem, their favorite "fixit" idea is to unplug the modem for a few secconds and replug everything back in.. or get rid of our router and plug the computers directly into the modem, rather than into the router.. DuH! Don't see how that is going to speed things up any.. didn't help before when we just had the router and no modem needed.. strange., no? But as my friends on the list know, I'm not a hardware guru.. so I am willing to be enlightened by those who are.. ;) TIA -- j They that begin by burning books , end by burning men.