Not a lot: I came in late on the thread. One thing to investigate is if his ISP keeps a local cache of gentoo as many of the ones in Oz do - they usually dont charge for local (to the ISP) traffic. Then unless its openoffice which is a bit big, a pre-fetch from the ISP at night is a good scenario.
BillK On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 13:27 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 08:57:57 +0800 > W.Kenworthy wrote: > > > Here's another way I started using (~1 month) and it seems both simple > > and problem free. Run http-replicator on the machine with good net > > access, then point the rest at it. Its a distfile caching proxy and > > best of all, its in potage and there is a gentoo wiki doc on how to set > > it up. Nice! > > Yes a good setup if there is fast and easy access between the two > machines. > > Sorry how does this help the OP who has a machine at home on dialup and > a fast connection at work? (and who doesn't want to download from home > if he can help it?) > > -- > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
