<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 19, 2007 8:42 AM, Scott Ritchie <<a href="mailto:scott@open-vote.org">scott@open-vote.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> We should consider that it's not always the user's download that gets saturated, but the mirror's upload. This is especially true on release day. A 30% reduction in filesize would translate to a 30% reduction in download time for everyone. This becomes far more important when everyone's download time is over ten times as long as normal because of our mirror issues. More interestingly, it's quite likely that there are mirrors out there that become rate limited once a certain bandwidth threshhold is met due to cost concerns. If we prevent them from reaching that threshold by lowering the bandwidth, we could reduce download time by even more than the filesize reduction. </blockquote></div> I upgrade a between 2 days and 2 weeks before release to avoid waiting 4 hours for the upgrade to download on release day, like I did with Edgy. -- Mackenzie Morgan Linux User #432169 ACM Member #3445683 <a href="http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com">http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com</a> <-my blog of Ubuntu stuff apt-get moo