Just how fast is ADSL anyway?

From: Brian Lavender (brian@brie.com)
Date: Wed Jun 23 1999 - 14:45:53 PDT


I just downloaded Oracle. Here are the results. I have the basic
account from pacbell and I live four blocks from the Central Office.

brian

darkstar:~$ ncftp ftp.oracle.com
Trying to connect to ftp.oracle.com...
oracle:/pub/www/oracle8/linux> ls -la
total 566580
drwxr-xr-x 2 1004 104 2048 Feb 10 00:42 ./
drwxr-xr-x 6 1004 104 96 Feb 10 00:42 ../
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1004 104 145043360 Oct 7 1998 805ship.tgz*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1004 104 20971520 Oct 9 1998 805ship1.tar*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1004 104 20971520 Oct 9 1998 805ship2.tar*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1004 104 20971520 Oct 9 1998 805ship3.tar*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1004 104 20971520 Oct 9 1998 805ship4.tar*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1004 104 20971520 Oct 9 1998 805ship5.tar*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1004 104 20971520 Oct 9 1998 805ship6.tar*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1004 104 19214240 Oct 9 1998 805ship7.tar*
oracle:/pub/www/oracle8/linux> get 805ship.tgz
805ship.tgz: 145043360 bytes received in 967.14 seconds, 146.46 kB/s.

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Brian Lavender
Sacramento, CA
http://www.brie.com/brian/
 "There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX.  
  We don't believe this to be a coincidence." - Jeremy S. Anderson



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