What are the download speeds like out there?

[Andrew Mathenge]

No worries.

Andrew.

On 10/20/07, Bob Brewster <bobbrews at speed-river.ca> wrote:
>
>   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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