On Sat, 19 Sep 2015 13:54:10 +0200, Simon Hanna wrote:
I wonder where in Germany you are that you don't have a good connection.... It might be slow, but you should have internet basically all the time....
It's a little bit too off-topic. I want to mention that this update didn't really cause an issue here, I'm just talking about contingencies, but indeed I often can't avoid to make a complete update by doing partial upgrades. For me it's ok if there's no hint by the news, if there happens such a dependency update, my intention was just to mention that users not necessarily are ignorant, but the circumstances are not equal all over the world. IOW we don't need to continue this discussion. Now the answer to your question In the middle of the Ruhrgebiet (I'm living in Oberhausen) there usually is a good Internet infrastructure. However, you can chose a good provider, chose a fast DSL connection with a money back warranty and after a few month there's a company take-over, then you switch to another provider and the same happens after a few month again. The Internet connection becomes that slow that pacman stops downloading and the ISP offends the general business terms, no money back. The Bundesregierung is aware about the bad state of affairs [1] but nothing happened in the last years. I often have less than 1 bit/second for more than 10 seconds announced by pacman, when it stops downloading packages. I had fast speed ADSL for years too, it depends to the company that temporarily owns the ISP. It's not the infrastructure regarding cables etc., it depends to company policies and the politics that ISPs don't need to care about German laws, their own business terms. https://allestörungen.de/ shows that this is a common issue even in big cities, areas of high population density, with a theoretically good Internet infrastructure. [1] Unfortunately in German: http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/schmalband-deutschland-warum-unser-intern...