What are the download speeds like out there?

[Bob Brewster]

  Andrew:

     I would like 1 and would pick it up on Party Day.

   Bob Brewster



On Sat, 2007-20-10 at 19:55 -0400, Andrew Mathenge wrote:
> For anyone having download problems, I have successfully downloaded
> Gutsy and burned it on CD. I'm located downtown and willing to burn a
> copy for anyone who wants one. As long as you can get to Queen and
> Yonge :)
> 
> And..... it's absolutely FREE!!
> 
> Andrew.
> 
> On 10/20/07, Doooh Head <doooh_head at hotmail.com> wrote:
>         
>         Hi All,
>         
>         Sorry I haven't yet read all of the messages leading up to
>         this reply, but I was able to download and successfully
>         upgrade to Gutsy and did so on Thursday when it was released
>         and I had no download speed issues.  Here's what I did: 
>         
>         I went into System/Administration/Software Sources.  I clicked
>         on the "Download From" dropdown and chose "Other...".  A
>         dialog opened with all of the possible source locations
>         displayed.  There is a button located on this dialog "Select
>         Best Server".  I hit this button.  It then proceeded to check
>         every available server, for access speeds.  at the end of it,
>         it chose one for me that it determined was going to be the
>         fastest one for me to download from.  It turned out it wasn't
>         one from "Canada" but I was getting over 800K/bps download
>         speed. 
>         
>         So my suggestion for everyone to try, before they start the
>         upgrade to Gutsy is to go into this dialog box and choose a
>         different software source.  It makes an incredible difference.
>         
>         Again I apologize if in a prior message, such a thing was
>         already discussed or mentioned. 
>         
>         Doooh_Head
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