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"A few hours" - yeah, right.

"Even on a dial-up line the download should take no more than a few hours, and it will work in the background".

According to the last slide, actual size may approach 500M. Assuming 4k per second as a best-case dial-up modem speed (as I see when using download accelerators, else 2.5k more typical) then that would take 34 hours to download. That is a large value for "few".

Then again, these updates usually come down more slowly, so as to reduce impact on bandwidth. In which case it may take several days. Even "just" 80M is ugly, on dial-up.

If your dial-up is done through a telco that charges per-second billing on local calls, or your broadband sets a 1G monthly cap, you're in trouble.

Posted by: cquirke   Posted on: 03/24/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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