On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 10:22:07AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > download time is usually 10x longer than bunip2ing of dowloaded file and > > > many pays for this time so it will be much cheaper and faster on slow > > > connections if bz2 is used for the reasonable amount of packages (at > > > least bigger ones) > > > > Only if you are connecting through a straw or are not using a CD. Around > > here the time to download is <<< time to install even with gzip! > > The `10x longer to download' is certainly true for a 56k modem, > so I suspect quite a few (perhaps a majority) of the people that are > downloading are doing so `through straws'...
And what about people using 33.6k (me) or even slower modems or people with 56k on very overcrowded part of net.
