[ubuntu-uk] Click downloaded Ubuntu

[Rob Beard]

Harry Rickards wrote:
> I suppose now I think of it, the CD is approx 700 MB, so multiply that  
> b/y 8 and you get 5600 Mb. If the connection is 100 Mb/s, one copy will  
> take roughly 56 seconds so two will take approx (I just know some  
> broadband expert will come and give me some value I haven't factored  
> in, like surely the ping to the server should be in there somewhere) 1  
> min 52 sec.
>
> Many thanks
> Harry Rickards (a.k.a l33tmyst)
>
>   

Well that beats the 5 minutes it takes me on my 20 Meg Virgin connection 
from their FTP site.  I do start to wonder though that as download 
speeds get quicker, how long is it going to be before we hit the limit 
on the servers we're downloading from?

I mean I was downloading some stuff from Microsoft's web site the other 
day and I was limited to about 800K/sec or thereabouts, of course some 
of this might have been related to lack of capacity during the day (I 
find during the day my download speed can slow down to around 1.2MB/sec 
from about 2.2MB/sec - thats before the traffic management kicks in) but 
it makes me wonder if some of these servers can cope.

Still with 100MBit/sec in theory you should get REALLY good speeds using 
Bit Torrent to download the Ubuntu ISO.

Rob