1 Nov
2002
1 Nov
'02
00:42
On Friday 01 November 2002 01.39, Doug Glenn wrote:
I find this slightly amazing, since my experience is almost diametrically opposite. I always mirror the update directory and run
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With 8.1 though, the initial download of available patches is almost instantaneous.
If your grabbing it locally, then I would hope it was that fast :)
Well, you snipped the relevant bit there. I was comparing with previous incarnations of YOU, and they were dog slow even when downloading on a local LAN.
It just took 37 minutes before it displayed the list this time. That is 10 times slower than version 8 at its worst for me.
For me YOU in 8.1 is a hundred times faster than in 8.0. Anders