Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 10:15:12 -0500 (CDT) From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> Cc: Daniel Hawton <irc@cooltime.simplenet.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Download of FreeBSD 3.0-SNAP Message-ID: <199809131515.KAA04992@detlev.UUCP> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980913001612.13121C-100000@shell.uniserve.ca> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980913001612.13121C-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
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>> I am about to get a cable modem (10mega bits per second) how long >> would it take to download everything I need to install FreeBSD >> 3.0-SNAP? I have the boot disk made. > If your cable modem is really 10 mbs, it should take about 2 > minutes for a base install. About 3 minutes if you get X and some > other goodies. Howerver, in the real world, it will take about 5 > times longer than that (10 to 15 minutes) Let's also add that it depends greatly on other factors such as time of day (which affects traffic patterns), which mirror you use (which affects traffic patterns), what your upstreams' connections are (which affects traffic patterns), and the phase of the moon (which affects... nevermind). Best, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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