On 3 May 2009, at 21:25, Michael Douglas <meh...@mehall.co.cc> wrote:
> 100 Mbit/s? Best guess inside of 3mins. > > Harry Rickards wrote: >> On 3 May 2009, at 21:18, David King <linux...@avoura.com> wrote: >> >> >>> I was watching the BBC News 24 TV programme "Click" broadcast this >>> weekend. When they were testing a 100 Mbit/s broadband connection, >>> they >>> used it to download two copies of Ubuntu 9.04 simultaneously. A good >>> advert for Ubuntu. >>> >> >> Just out of interest, how long did it take? >> >> Many thanks >> Harry Rickards (a.k.a l33tmyst) >> >> > I suppose now I think of it, the CD is approx 700 MB, so multiply that by 8 and you get 5600 Mb. If the connection is 100 Mb/s, one copy will take roughly 56 seconds so two will take approx (I just know some broadband expert will come and give me some value I haven't factored in, like surely the ping to the server should be in there somewhere) 1 min 52 sec. Many thanks Harry Rickards (a.k.a l33tmyst) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
