-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Rob Beard wrote: > Harry Rickards wrote: >> I suppose now I think of it, the CD is approx 700 MB, so multiply that >> b/y 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) >> >> > > Well that beats the 5 minutes it takes me on my 20 Meg Virgin connection > from their FTP site. I do start to wonder though that as download > speeds get quicker, how long is it going to be before we hit the limit > on the servers we're downloading from? > > I mean I was downloading some stuff from Microsoft's web site the other > day and I was limited to about 800K/sec or thereabouts, of course some > of this might have been related to lack of capacity during the day (I > find during the day my download speed can slow down to around 1.2MB/sec > from about 2.2MB/sec - thats before the traffic management kicks in) but > it makes me wonder if some of these servers can cope. > > Still with 100MBit/sec in theory you should get REALLY good speeds using > Bit Torrent to download the Ubuntu ISO. > > Rob > > Yeah, for some reason I always get faster speeds using BitTorrent. I was downloading something via BT the other day that took about 25 seconds to download a 200MB file, yet I only get 10 MB/s download when downloading from Cachefly's 'distributed server network' or whatever they call it now. Surely everyone should just use BitTorrent, not pay expensive fees for Content Delivery Network's.
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