Thanks all. Here's a little explanation of
what I'm doing. I am a developer for a couple
of the Linux Distros. Those being Mandriva and
Puppy Linux. I also dabble a little with Fedora.
I run what's call a "local mirror" of the
repository of all of the files associated
with those distros. In the case of Mandriva
that can, and does, result in a directory
that contains upwards of 30,000 files and
sometimes reaches 40GB+. The source is:
»
www.kernel.orgBecause kernel.org is very high on the food
chain of the Internet I can sustain constant
download speeds right at the max that Uverse
allows me. Last time I did this was about
8 weeks ago when I sync'd up with Mandriva
2009.1. For about 6 hours my Uverse connection
maintained a constant about 9.5Mbs datarate.
It was quite something to watch. Uverse never
stumbled.
Now when I resync the data rate is right at
about 14Mbs. It's all pretty impressive. I
don't download the whole thing that often.
Maybe about once every 6 months. Every day
though I do a resync and that can at times
involve a couple of gigs.