On Tuesday 25 November 2003 4:53 am, Joe Dufresne wrote:
yes, i know. But i figured it was best to wait until it was at a mirror physically near me. now i'm "enjoying" downloading both it and the live eval with a 28.8 modem. thank goodness for wget.
what???????????? so we'll check on you in about 6 weeks time then??? I looked at the size of the directory tree for downloading it over cable (some 7 gigabytes), wimped out and have ordered the boxed upgrade set instead... £39 instead of tying up my cable connection for a couple of days wins for me, plus I get it on nice discs for permanence and have a manual with it as well... I get 1MB per 24 seconds download speed, so 7.2 GB is some 1024 * 7.2 * 24s = just over 2 days optimistic estimate... 28.8 modem!!!!!!! I got 1MB per 4 minutes over a 56K modem... So you're looking at 8 minutes per megabyte so we'll see you in 41 days time then???