Now that’s fast! « Motho ke motho ka botho

Now that’s fast!

Published August 23, 2007 Arch Linux , Linux , Ubuntu

One last note, and this isn’t a joke.

[kmandla@cc99p01 ISOs]$ axel -aS http://ftp.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/UBUNTU-CDS/kubuntu/feisty/kubuntu-7.04-alternate-i386.iso
Initializing download:
http://ftp.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/UBUNTU-CDS/kubuntu/feisty/kubuntu-7.04-alternate-i386.iso
Doing search...
Testing speeds, this can take a while...
1 usable servers found, will use these URLs:
URL Speed http://ftp.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/UBUNTU-CDS/kubuntu/feisty/kubuntu-7.04-al 89
File size: 728449024 bytes
Opening output file kubuntu-7.04-alternate-i386.iso
Starting download

Connection 1 finished ]
Connection 0 finished ]
Connection 2 finished ]
[100%] [..................................................] [8313.3KB/s] [00:00]

Downloaded 694.7 megabytes in 1:25 seconds. (8313.25 KB/s)

Wow. I have never, NEVER downloaded an entire ISO in a minute and a half. Good grief that’s fast. Thanks go to axel, NTT West and ftp.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp. Sheesh!

5 Responses to “Now that’s fast!”

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1 Garbled Zombie August 24, 2007 at 12:52 am

Impossible…
2 Luke August 27, 2007 at 5:36 am

Oh crap! That speed looks unbelievable. I mean, how the… Why… Is that even possible? What is your downstream speed?

Note to self - try axel! LOL
3 riger99 March 24, 2008 at 11:00 pm

See speed in action here:
http://tinyurl.com/2ajslv