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

[Russell Senior]

To be clear, I mean you can go on campus at PSU and connect to their guest
wifi.

On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 5:09 PM Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net>
wrote:

> 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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