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Downloading opensuse 10.1

Speed graphI downloaded the Opensuse 10.1 remastered DVD iso. Rather than use bittorrent I located a fast mirror and downloaded the whole thing.

Click on the thumbnail for the graph, it was down a max speed of 17.16 Mbits/sec. That’s insane and I had no idea that Optimum could go that fast.

I’m planning on replacing the basement PII 450 MHz with a 3.2 GHz P4.

More speed test fun

Just saw this on digg.com http://www.speedtest.net/. It’s a slick method for checking your speed to various servers.

My cable speed clocks at

Speed test results

I get less going to Washington DC or San Francisco. It’s a cool toy to play with.