No cable in this area. Tried satellite, was fast, but not reliable. Have 128K ISDN drops to 64K when there's a phone call. Which ever way I go to town the next telco remote terminal I pass supports DSL. They are supposed to upgrade the remote terminal that serves this neighborhood real soon. They don't call them Qworst for nothing. Meanwhile, waiting, waiting, waiting ... <div>On 3/18/07, Vincent Trouilliez <<a href="mailto:vincent.trouilliez@modulonet.fr">vincent.trouilliez@modulonet.fr</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> "drew einhorn" <<a href="mailto:drew.einhorn@gmail.com">drew.einhorn@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > wget is getting it, says it will be about 3 hrs. I feel your pain :-/ When I started playing with Linux in mid-2002, I had dial-up like cable access (64Kbps). It's only later, when my ISP increased the speed to 1Mbps, then last summer to 30Mbps, and 100Mpbs planned this summer (they are nearly done pulling the old coaxial cables and replacing it with optical fibres), that Linux really started to be "practical", useful, exciting, fascinating and... fun :o) -- Vince -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com"> ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- Drew Einhorn