Justin Findlay wrote: > On AD 2008 January 20 Sunday 06:48:10 AM -0600, Dale wrote: > >> Funnier still, they recently went up on dial-up. It costs more than DSL >> does. Oh, since I am on the net so much, they also charge me for the >> time on the phone too. I end up paying about $30 to $40 a month for >> internet costs. Funny huh? DSL is $19.95 a month. Me being disabled >> makes it even more fun. I'm wanting DSL to save money right now. I >> should save about $20 a month or so plus have a faster connection. >> > > I pay $40/month for 14 Mib up and down and I can run it at max > throughput indefinitely. I seeded all 92 gentoo torrents for a month > once to test this out. :-) Here in Utah, USA we have the largest > community fiber network in the country called UTOPIA. I'm only on > iProvo, but on UTOPIA they can get 50 Mib for a residential link. > > > Justin >
I wish I lived in Utopia. LOL :-p Well, I made some progress while I was napping. I'm here now: >>> Emerging (31 of 205) kde-base/libkdeedu-4.0.0 to / >>> Downloading 'ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo/distfiles/kdeedu-4.0.0.tar.bz2' --10:48:22-- ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo/distfiles/kdeedu-4.0.0.tar.bz2 => `/usr/portage/distfiles/kdeedu-4.0.0.tar.bz2' Resolving ftp.ussg.iu.edu... 156.56.247.193 Connecting to ftp.ussg.iu.edu|156.56.247.193|:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! ==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done. ==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /pub/linux/gentoo/distfiles ... done. ==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR kdeedu-4.0.0.tar.bz2 ... done. Length: 41,886,885 (40M) (unauthoritative) 23% [==========> ] 9,760,968 2.61K/s ETA 4:48:59 Exiting on signal 2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # I had to stop it to send in a folding unit thingy. Can't do more than one thing at a time on this connection. :-( Even Kopete pitches a fit sometimes. It's 12:40 now, so by dark I should have that ONE completed. ;-) Dang, 14Mbs both ways. < Dale drools and slobbers everywhere > Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
