What are the download speeds like out there?

[Andrew Mathenge]

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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