From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ms-smtp-01-lbl.southeast.rr.com ([24.25.9.100] helo=ms-smtp-01-eri0.southeast.rr.com) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1D4Xu2-0002rx-00 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 00:20:38 -0500 Received: from QUARK (cpe-069-134-173-071.nc.rr.com [69.134.173.71]) by ms-smtp-01-eri0.southeast.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id j1P5KXbo011792 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 00:20:36 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200502250520.j1P5KXbo011792@ms-smtp-01-eri0.southeast.rr.com> From: "Sina Bahram" To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 00:20:35 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353 Thread-Index: AcUayrrSAqK5BTfXQEORRIsEMHcqAwALrAoQ X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 In-reply-to: <000601c51aca$961742f0$6401a8c0@DJTWWQ41> X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Subject: RE: Any alternate download sites for speakup ftp? X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 05:20:39 -0000 Actually 768 killibits per second only translates into around 96 kb/s, so 70kb/s is around 72.91% of what's on paper. Remember to do the same with your download ... You are getting about right for 3mb/s down: just divide by 8 Take care, Sina -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of John McCann Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 6:43 PM To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: Any alternate download sites for speakup ftp? Al wrote: "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. Interesting; 70kbps is about what I was seeing when I was downloading images from Bill Acker's site; when the speakup site was down. Glad I'm able to help, but it is a bit disheartening to hear about download speeds of 70kbps when my ISP (cox business services) touts an upload capability of 768kbps; i.e., on paper, the throughput is fully 10% of what it should be, or could ultimately be. Now, that having been said, the best throughput I was ever able to achieve by connecting to Bill's site was 370-380kbps, meaning that it took about a half hour to download one disk image. Anybody have any thoughts on why the download speed is as slow as it is, or any thoughts on how to improve it? Am now using a pentium 4 machine, 2.53GHz processor, 512MB of ram. The current plan is to upgrade this machine within the next two weeks. John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Al Puzzuoli" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 5:29 PM Subject: Re: Any alternate download sites for speakup ftp? > 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" > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > > 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 >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup