What are the download speeds like out there?

[Mazen Ghattas]

I mirrored it over FTP, and the speed was very fast!i had problems getting
the ISO or the updates from the servers, but luckily i got it from the FTP
servers FAST

On 10/19/07, Leslie Wright <leslie.wright at alumni.uwo.ca> wrote:
>
>  I run Ubuntu as as a virtual machine under VMWare Fusion on a new iMac.
>
> I had little trouble downloading the 64-bit Desktop ISO. Haven't installed
> it yet.
>
> Trying to update within my existing Ubuntu to 7.10 using Update Manager is
> another matter. I click the button, and Update Manager appears to look for
> the downloads without doing much. I eventually give up and close Update
> Manager and have to force quit to complete the operation.
>
> hth,
> Les
>
> Joel Goguen wrote:
>
> That's exactly what I was going to do actually :)  I think it's almost
> done...I'm remote right now and it's downloading at home.  Too lazy to
> log in to see :)
>
> On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 19:26 -0300, Richard Seguin wrote:
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> Joel,
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> What are you trying to download? gusty desktop? I am not sure if
> you'll get any better speed off aliant but I can mirror gusty desktop
> for us local people.
>
> Joel Goguen wrote:
>
>  On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 18:50 -0300, Richard Seguin wrote: Are the
> download mirrors pretty quick still?  If your in NB and your having
> trouble getting gusty let me know.
>
> Richard Seguin
>
>           Really slow for me.  Hopefully this is a good sign that lots of
> people are downloading the ISO and we've got some new users :)
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