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From: "Al Puzzuoli" <alpuzz@comcast.net>
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Thanks a lot!

I just started downloading disk 1.  Right now, I'm getting about 70KB/s and 
it's estimating roughly 2 hours and 30 mins for the first disk.  At this 
rate, I'll have them all before i would have had even one from the speakup 
server.


--Al

  ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John McCann" <lists@jamsite.us>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 4:43 PM
Subject: Re: Any alternate download sites for speakup ftp?


> Hi Al:
>
> You wrote:
>
> "For some reason, the speakup ftp server is severely slow.  I am using 
> broadband, Comcast to be exact, and each disk is taking 15 to 20 hours to 
> complete."
>
> Tell me about it! I had that same experience over the President's day 
> weekend; i.e., last weekend when I downloaded the 02/19/2005 set of four 
> disks.
>
> And you continue:
>
> "Is there any alternate way to get these files, either from another 
> server, a torrent, etc?"
>
> I've put them on my FTP server, and would love to know what kind of 
> download speeds one gets when taking them from my site.
>
> Go to:
>
> ftp.jamsite.us/linux
>
> and give it a try. If you do, would you please respond (on or off list) 
> with a report on the transfer rate?
>
> Thanks!
>
> John
>
>
>
>
>
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