Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 09:07:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Rob <spamrefuse@yahoo.com> To: subhro.kar@gmail.com Cc: FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: India had no FreeBSD mirror sites ?!? Message-ID: <20050414160710.93703.qmail@web54008.mail.yahoo.com>
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Subhro wrote: > Erik Trulsson wrote: > >> I would assume that like most other countries they >> are charged per minute for the dialup connection >> (by the phone company, not the ISP) even if they >> don't get charged per megabyte. Downloading large >> files will still be expensive then. > > We are changed per minute both by the Carrier > company and the ISP. I guess this is typical for home connections in India. But I suppose that big research institutes and universities have a better, more economic internet connection. I can't imagine that the big institutes in Kolkata, Chennai, Bengalore, Mumbai etc. are connected via 56 kb/s modems and pay exorbitant amounts for internet use.... Of course, a Linux and/or BSD mirror should be hosted by such a research institute, most probably by the computer science departement. Or is all that different in India? Rob. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/
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