Michael Havens wrote:
> I am on dialup and am upgrading my system. Synaptic (the GUI updater) tells me 
> that I am downloading this at around 5,000 bytes per second and that at this 
> speed it will take about 4 1/2 hours to complete. Now sometimes the download 
> speed will increase to 10,000 bytes per second (which decreases the 
> completion time considerably) but that only lasts for a couple of seconds. I 
> was wonderring if there was anything I could do to keep the download speed at 
> 10K or if my provider could do something to keep it at that speed

Nothing can be done if you stay with Dialup. 56Kbits/sec is approx = to 5000kBytes
/sec (with overhead. The temporary 10000 bytes/sec number is likely due to
short term calculation errors but that rate is just not possable over a 56K modem.