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Justin Findlay wrote: |
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> On AD 2008 January 20 Sunday 06:48:10 AM -0600, Dale wrote: |
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>> Funnier still, they recently went up on dial-up. It costs more than DSL |
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>> does. Oh, since I am on the net so much, they also charge me for the |
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>> time on the phone too. I end up paying about $30 to $40 a month for |
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>> internet costs. Funny huh? DSL is $19.95 a month. Me being disabled |
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>> makes it even more fun. I'm wanting DSL to save money right now. I |
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>> should save about $20 a month or so plus have a faster connection. |
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> I pay $40/month for 14 Mib up and down and I can run it at max |
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> throughput indefinitely. I seeded all 92 gentoo torrents for a month |
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> once to test this out. :-) Here in Utah, USA we have the largest |
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> community fiber network in the country called UTOPIA. I'm only on |
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> iProvo, but on UTOPIA they can get 50 Mib for a residential link. |
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> Justin |
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I wish I lived in Utopia. LOL :-p Well, I made some progress while I |
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was napping. I'm here now: |
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>>> Emerging (31 of 205) kde-base/libkdeedu-4.0.0 to / |
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>>> Downloading |
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'ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo/distfiles/kdeedu-4.0.0.tar.bz2' |
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--10:48:22-- |
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ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo/distfiles/kdeedu-4.0.0.tar.bz2 |
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=> `/usr/portage/distfiles/kdeedu-4.0.0.tar.bz2' |
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Resolving ftp.ussg.iu.edu... 156.56.247.193 |
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Connecting to ftp.ussg.iu.edu|156.56.247.193|:21... connected. |
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Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! |
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==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done. |
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==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /pub/linux/gentoo/distfiles ... done. |
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==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR kdeedu-4.0.0.tar.bz2 ... done. |
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Length: 41,886,885 (40M) (unauthoritative) |
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23% [==========> ] 9,760,968 |
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2.61K/s ETA 4:48:59 |
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Exiting on signal 2 |
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root@smoker / # |
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I had to stop it to send in a folding unit thingy. Can't do more than |
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one thing at a time on this connection. :-( Even Kopete pitches a fit |
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sometimes. It's 12:40 now, so by dark I should have that ONE completed. |
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;-) |
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Dang, 14Mbs both ways. < Dale drools and slobbers everywhere > |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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