Too Busy For Words - the PaulWay Blog

I'm probably the third-last Fedora fan to find this out, but version five is now steaming and fresh on the various mirrors I have access to. I'd resolved long ago to share FC5 when it came out via torrents, but it makes more sense for me to download it from a mirror I don't get charged for. I ssh'd in from work to my home machine and started downloading it across the 512/512 DSL, and then thought, "hang on a minute..." and checked AARNET.

Which the ANU has three 55Mbit Frame Relay links to.

Which means that I downloaded the five images in about five minutes - at the average rate of 10MB/sec (the speed of my link to the building switch, as it turns out. I've got a gigabit switch here but my upstream is still limited...).

Then I copied it onto my 80GB portable laptop drive, and whisked it home, for the purposes of sharing for those less fortunate.

Internode still only has the DVD image. I'll get that too. That can wait until I get home.