[PLUG] Public / Free high-speed internet - Linux Distro

Russell Senior russell at personaltelco.net
Tue Oct 8 00:09:36 UTC 2019


Another place with lots of bandwidth you might be able to score from is
Portland State University. I haven't tried (I have decent bandwidth at
home), but if I was looking for tubes, that's a place that comes to mind.

On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 4:21 PM Mike C. <mconnors1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> What is giving you the estimate?
>
> -- Browser download manager. But I also can see how much of the distro has
> been downloaded after an hour.
>
> Sometimes the slow download is more a matter of which mirror you got
> sent to. If you can specify one, you might be able to "shop around" for
> one that's reasonably fast.
>
> -- This is true and I'm used to this from my Debian mirror days. You could
> actually run a test to figure out which was the best / fastest mirror based
> on your internet location. For example, I'd often pull from U of O.
>
> It seems now that most of the lesser well known & used distros don't have a
> mirror speed test and they're distributing via Sourceforge and other
> mainstream software download sites.
>
> But it's probably worth testing all the different download sites the next
> time I'm at the Library. Perhaps one will be significantly faster.
>
> -- Mike
>
>
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