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Subject: Re: Is DSL fast enough to download 6 man Tablebases?

Author: Peter Skinner

Date: 08:42:19 06/23/04

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On June 23, 2004 at 11:32:55, Brian Katz wrote:

>I am presently using a DSL Connection........Will that be fast enough for
>downloading 6 man Tablebases.?
>I have created 4 partitions on my 80 gig Harddrive.
>
>C: Drive 20 gig for my OS and some basic applications like MS OFFICE and CD/DVD
>Writing Program, Back up programs.
>
>D: Drive 12 GIG, for Chess Programs and other Miscellaneous Applications.
>
>E: Drive 12 Gig, for most saved Documents that I manually save when saving from
>an Application like Word or Excel or Fritz 8 etc., or Copied and Pasted folders
>and Files from Floppy or CD/DVD.
>
>F:Drive 30 Gig, for Tablebase files only.
>
>Also, my Tablebase folder is in a partioned logical drive. The drive is 30 Gig.
>The Tablebase files I already have (All 3,4 and 5 men) is using well over 7 Gig.
>Since I will only have 23 remaining Gig to use,do you have any suggestions, as
>to what 6 man Tablebases are more important?
>And lastly, since with only one partition, it is recommended to always leave
>10-20 percent of empty harddrive space, for various reasons...(Operating System
>and Swapping being some of them), with a partitioned Harddrive, should I leave
>some empty space on the drive I am using for the Tablebases?
>
>Thanks
>Brian

Technically a 14.4 modem is fast enough to download them if you want to spend
that kind of time.

I use a cable modem, and I download roughly 10.6 gigs nightly (6 hour period),
so DSL should be just fine.

Peter



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