Re: Electronic Software Delivery - Bandwidth Question -- MIDRANGE-L

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On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 21:05, Edith Lueke <lueke@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

1. what kind of connectivity do you have ( T1, broadband, .....)?

We have a 50 megabit connection in the office and most of our
employees have 10-25 megabit at home. Some use older 6 megabit
connections.

2. what download time would you expect to download the IBM i operating
system?

That's two single layer DVDs and a single CD, for a total of around 10GB data.

So, i'd expect:

(10 GB) / (50 (Mbit / second)) = 27.3066667 minutes

According to Google. 30 Minutes sounds about right. Maybe an hour if
other people are also downloading stuff.

Right now, downloads from IBM usually max out at 500 kilobytes per
second, which is pretty poor. My suggestion would be to use Akamai or
Amazon CloudFront to provide speedy file downloads, instead of trying
to build the necessary infrastructure on your own.

3. would you use ftp, download director, or either, to download?

Whatever works. Download director regularly doesn't and sometimes is
even slower then FTP. I usually stick to FTP.

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