Globe overwhelmed?

Murphy's Law: If anything can happen, it will.

Tomorrow I will be giving a Linux presentation to a group of ACSAT students. Initially, I offered Ubuntu, but decided against it only last Tuesday because they would opt for Red Hat v8. Since I haven't used Red Hat for quite a while, I scrounged around for my copy of RH9 but couldn't. So I decided to download it from RH's archive using Smart's wi-fi connection but the fastest download speed I reached averaged only @ 10kbps. I reasoned, well the weather is somewhat bad there might be some interference. So I transferred my download to the office's Globe DSL connection which is supposed to be in the area of 768kbps, I figured I could reached a download speed of around 60kbps which I normally experience, but to my dismay, as of this moment my download speed is only 12kbps which is only twice that of a dial-up connection. What happened? To many subscribers on-line? Or is it Globe, in pursuit of expanding its subscriber base failed to upgrade their resources. Too bad.

I'm still positive though, something better will come out of this. But for the meantime, I'll asked around for some copy of RH8 or RH9.

Have a nice day!

Comments

Anonymous said…
Hmmnnn redhat u said? i tnk i hav a redhat i don´t know wat version.

Well there goes you DEDICATEDserviceLINE. Itś not dedicated after all ahehehehe.

I reach 30+kB/s while downloading ISOs but it fluctuates!

koyaPaolo has a description of what is happening...i hope he reads this blog...iĺl post this in our suLUG messageBOARD.

By the way koyaRandy pls join www.sillimanians.com and join the suLUG group, we need you out there and koyaPAO responds to questions very well, he is the founder actually, the anito(kase he is always with us in spirit!!!). The site is down as of now...well check it later r@mon the webmaster is doing repairs and bugfixes.
12:02 PM
Randy Bandiola said…
Just let me know when it's up. I'll drop by and see what I can pitch-in.
12:55 PM
Anonymous said…
sillimanins.com is banned on cyberlib? what a shame guys, kuya randy wholeheartedly made that site to promote friendship among us Sillimaninas and this is what they do? tsk tsk tsk.. too bad....
1:06 AM
Anonymous said…
CORRECTION: itś not koyaRANDY, it is R@mon Ruperto, a teacher in CITCS and a Law student also.

A member of S´LUG!
3:39 AM
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