[9fans] download time?

[9fans] download time?

[Conor]

Hi,

I was thinking of downloading P9 ,but I was wondering what sort of time
frame,with a 56K modem, I was looking at?

Re: [9fans] download time?

[Boyd Roberts]

From: "Conor" <conoruser@lineone.net>

> I was thinking of downloading P9 ,but I was wondering what sort of time
> frame,with a 56K modem, I was looking at?

~50Mb @ ~5Kb/sec = 10000 secs = 2.8 hours, so call it 3.

Re: [9fans] download time?

[Conor]

Thanks. Thought it would be larger as it was making someone 'sick'
downloading it. Don't think I ever get 5K sec download,so I'll call it 4.

Regards

Conor

[9fans] Re: download time?

[Alexander L]

It depends, for the boot disk image, it'll only takes you a few minutes.
But the distribution part which is about 50 mb will take you 4 hours
(it takes that awful long time in my machine). I don't think the bell-lab's
server supporting getright and/or stuff like that.... Since I've try that.

Be sure to download it at night time :-)
With download managers that can auto dailup and disconnect itself.

Good luck

Conor <conoruser@lineone.net> wrote in message
news:8qgeug$1rq$1@supernews.com...
> Hi,
>
> I was thinking of downloading P9 ,but I was wondering what sort of time
> frame,with a 56K modem, I was looking at?

[9fans] Re: download time?

[root]

In article <969710065.235147@news>,
	Alexander L <alex-sci@freenet.co.nz> writes:

> Be sure to download it at night time :-)
> With download managers that can auto dailup and disconnect itself.
>
> Good luck

Indeed.  How can you do this when there is no access to the
location of the plan9.9gz file?

The web page has a link to the file by way of (apparently) a
non-existent path.  Moreover, the "directory" after "/magic/9down"
is different (and very long) each time you register to download.

You can access plan9.bell-labs.com as an FTP site, which reveals
only the TeX file and web pages, no plan9.9gz nor any path to it.


--Jim Howard  <jiho@mail.c-zone.net>