ERSEK Laszlo wrote: > On my machine, standard bunzip2 consumes about 3.6 MB compressed input per > second. I subscribed to a mid-level residential internet package. I've > just downloaded a kernel tarball from kernel.org (199.6.1.164, Redwood > City, CA -> Budapest, Hungary), wget has been showing a sustained rate of > 6.78 MB/s. You do the math.
I download at 370KB/s on good days and from local servers, and it's the fastest (and most expensive) plan my ISP provides. And I know people on dialup. > However, I cannot help bitterly disclosing to you that I've presented the > *exact* same example in my debaday article, which I've linked to at the > beginning of my thread-starting post. I don't consider footnote links in one post to be a must-read before replying to another post further down the thread. I already know well that clicking a link on a post will lead me to another, and before I know it I spent an hour recursively reading the internet. -- Nicolas I read mailing lists through Gmane. Please don't Cc me on replies; it makes me get one message on my newsreader and another on email. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
