-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 09:25:18AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Right on. But this presumes that all you do is download at 5 mins/MB > which you don't: the ISP goes down, while you are sleeping and the next > morning you find out.
That's why you use wget, so you can auto-resume and auto-retry. > Unfortunately, even with persistent HTTP connections, the download speed > will not be as high as that of a single-file ISO download. Such speeds > can only be achieved with HTTP pipelining - the jigdo GUI application > will support pipelining. > > So who knows how much more than 6 weeks if you use jigdo. But jigdo supports pipelining. And on a modem, we're talking about speed loss to be only a couple seconds. Modems don't take long to top out. > I know, I don't need the 13 CD's, but read my qeury further down on > how you find that what you want is on a CD that you didn't get and > the reason I want CD's is that I don't have to use the net. OK, so you're creating your own restriction. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian. Because it *must* work. debian.org aboutdebian.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAVfpMUzgNqloQMwcRAgQjAJ9eCxzciIiupx6v7ItmzeS+8a8gNgCfedkO wktv64IhTLALwlfYlCVZRk8= =W6Cs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
