RE: Cd - online

[Tim Ebling <tim@surreal.com>]

I grabbed it yesterday on my company's T1 - it started at noon and finished
just after midnight (~12 hours).  The transfer rate was a steady 7.0 kb/s,
which was certainly due to the host's speed and not our speed.

Well worth the d/l IMO! :-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: corky.williams [mailto:corky@chumps.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 1:11 PM
> To: Gerry Reichelt
> Cc: scirocco-L@scirocco.org; Dan Brideau
> Subject: Re: Cd - online
> 
> 
> 
> I have about 248 megs of the 256 megs, and I left it running all last 
> night and I am on dual T3's at work, but like others have said, it is 
> only as fast as the other end.. Thank goodness IE 5.0 resumes 
> connections,
>  because if not, I would be shit out of luck. Because it has 
> dropped my 
> connection liek 10 to 15 times.
> 
> I am going to RAR it up and throw it up somewhere so you 
> don't have to 
> download one huge file, just 30 or so 15 meg files.
> 
> Have a great day and wish me luck on this actually working.
> Corky
> 
> On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Gerry Reichelt wrote:
> 
> >     I don't work for either, I do have a direct cable 
> connection but it's
> > only as fast as the snail at the other end. I think the 
> amount of time the
> > window indicated for the file transfer was ......82hours! 
> Oh well, I'm not
> > that desparate for a copy.
> >     Gerry
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Dan Brideau <dan@hobbyetc.com>
> > 
> > Subject: Cd - online
> > 
> > 
> > > The CD is now on-line.  It is 500MB plain or 260 in it's 
> (current) zip
> > form.
> > >
> > > If you work for NASA or CRAY you should be all set...
> > >
> > > I'll leave it there for a week or so.
> > >
> > >
> > > Be discreet!
> > >
> > > http://www.hobbyetc.com/scirocco/topsecret/
> > 
> > 
> > 
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