What are the download speeds like out there?

[Jack Bowling]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 07:33:50PM -0400, Bob Brewster wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-19-10 at 18:59 -0300, Joel Goguen wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 18:50 -0300, Richard Seguin wrote:
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> > > Are the download mirrors pretty quick still?  If your in NB and your
> > > having trouble getting gusty let me know.
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> > > Richard Seguin
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> > > 
> > 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 :)
> > 
> 
>   Hi All:
> 
>   I am happy to know I am not the only one having DL problems.
> 
>    I am a new user in Toronto.
> 
>    Using the update manager, I tried to DL 7.1.
> 
>    I use DSL.
> 
>   My attempted DL was very, very slow and finally gave up the DL and
>   install.
> 
Took me twelve attempts. I changed my location to Los Angeles from
Vancouver and it finally took instead of bombing at the package download
stage. Looks like update manager localizes using the tzdata. Also decided
to download via linuxtracker as a little payback. Both the dist-upgrade
download and the torrent should be done in a couple of hours.

Jack