> HEAnet may have a 100Mb/s link to the net, but my link to HEAnet is currently
> 100kB/s (I'm just downloading FC-3), so in my case the answer to your
> question is that reading a CD would be tens if not hundreds of times faster
> than getting the distribution over the net.
Why would you expect less than 100kB/s to be the speed of the download of the
individual packages you're installing?
> I don't understand your arithmetic. It is going to take me about 6 hours to
> download FC-3. It will take me less than 30 minutes to install or upgrade on
> my not very fast laptop.
Installing over the network will amount to less than 6.5 hours.
Brian.
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