From: "Cascade" <whiteshadow101 AT hotmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/ (and the 10 hrs it takes to load)
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>Actually I downloaded a whole setup, and it didn't take *too* long.  It
>was slow, yeah, but not exactly unbearable.  All the bandwidth kids out
>there are just spoiled.  :o)


Yeah, I'll admit it, I'm spoiled. :p But I was getting very precious few
bytes a second, and in random pulses - I had to walk away from my computer,
eat something, and come back to a page that was hopefully done.  And I don't
even want to talk about the zip-picker....  So, to me, it was unbearable.
=)