Speed?

[Duane Attaway]

dattaway at attaway dattaway $ wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.14.tar.gz
--14:11:40--  http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.14.tar.gz
           => `linux-2.4.14.tar.gz'
Resolving www.kernel.org... done.
Connecting to www.kernel.org[204.152.189.116]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 28,708,217 [application/x-gzip]

100%[====================================>] 28,708,217   240.10K/s    ETA 
00:00

14:13:37 (240.10 KB/s) - `linux-2.4.14.tar.gz' saved [28708217/28708217]

It started out at 280KB/s then tapered off to the 240KB/s...  I've never 
seen RR's connection get slower than that from ftp.kernel.org.  Ever.

On Sat, 14 Sep 2002, Bradley Miller wrote:

> [brad at newserver brad]$ wget
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.
> 14.tar.gz
> --17:45:11--  http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.14.tar.gz
>            => `linux-2.4.14.tar.gz'
> Resolving www.kernel.org... done.
> Connecting to www.kernel.org[204.152.189.116]:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: 28,708,217 [application/x-gzip]
> 
> 100%[======================================>] 28,708,217    78.80K/s    ETA
> 00:00
> 
> 17:51:07 (78.80 KB/s) - `linux-2.4.14.tar.gz' saved [28708217/28708217]
> 
> 
> Probably hampered by the http request a bit . . . . 
> 
> -- Bradley Miller
> 
> 
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