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Crunchy(Cracked)Butter:
The fastest i can remember my modem communication went down the old copper line was 17k, that was over ICQ as well for a quick file transfer inside my country. But yeah you are right none the less.
jrigby:
well my internet connection usually rounds out to dowload at about 6 kb per second.
kompresseduk:
let's not confuse bits and bytes here...
56k modem can run at a max 7kB/s which is unrealistic. say 5kB/s max...
Lycoris (513MB) @ 5kB/s = 28.5 hours
Gentoo (135MB) @ 5kB/s = 7.5 hours
your modem will probably have difficulty doing 5kB/s, so it'll be quite a bit longer...
on another note, i may give gentoo a try, seems small and full of linxy goodness...
edit: how about slackware zip linux? fits on a zip disc, so it's less than 100Mb...
[ October 01, 2002: Message edited by: keot ]
rtgwbmsr:
The calculation was assuming a 7 KILOBYTES per second download for a 56kbps modem.
KBps and Kbps are all different things(bits and Bytes)
The calculator does:
(DownloadsizeMB *1024)/(Speed in kilobits per second /8) = Download time in minutes
Sometimes the max is unreasonable, but it made it flexible to enter any connection speed. Maybe I'll revise it to shave off 10 or 20 percent of the speed.
voidmain:
And also don't forget it depends on if the servers are hogged. I've got 1.5Mbps cable yet I've been downloading RedHat 8.0 for a day and a half now and only 544MB downloaded out of the 3 CDs. The servers are just plain swamped and I'm only getting about 3 or 4KB/s. Normally I can download a CD (650MB in around an hour or two). Looks like it'll be a few days for my RedHat 8.0 report...
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