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Date:      Mon, 5 Mar 2007 15:44:56 -0500
From:      Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Fetching sources from Windows?
Message-ID:  <17900.33096.692004.508607@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070305202532.GC5252@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
References:  <2942dae0703050945o430fcb8cp8c27b7fc98e2552f@mail.gmail.com> <20070305202532.GC5252@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>

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Jerry McAllister writes:

>  Basically, that is what I do.  I only have a regular old phone
>  modem at home.  I take my home machine in to the office where I
>  have a reliable 100 Mb/s and do my installs there.  The only
>  problem is fixing up IPs and host names.

	Before I got cable, I had a cron job which would dial my ISP in
the wee hours of the morning, download the evening's updates, and
disconnect.   Only rarely did this take more than a couple of hours,
even at 28.8 kbits/sec.


			Robert Huff



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