I can confirm that there's rather a lot of bandwidth available. It's on a different internal network, but my desk gets 100Mbps down and over half that up. If the data was actually coming from the 511 Building directly (as opposed to just going through there) it would be faster than the NIC in your machine could handle. :P Additionally, we did prepare a new box this time around to serve as a dedicated disk burning machine. We only had the Ubuntu ISOs pre-loaded on it, but I would be happy to add anything you request for next time. As far as I know, we've always been open to multiple distros, but usually the focus is on Ubuntu just because that's what people are interested in. The only one I recall seeing a significant number of people checking out before is Fedora. We also need to be careful about who this is for - trying to explain to newcomers that there are 300 different distros for them to choose from is overwhelming. IMO it's better for actual newcomers to just be given one to try out, and then at their second or third installfest they can delve further into the options available if they wish. We don't want to scare people away with too much information - there's already plenty for them to process! I'd tend to agree that pre-burning a bunch of CDs/DVDs would be a waste - better to have the images and media on hand and burn as needed. One thing that could be kind of fun that we don't have would be a machine with a bunch of distros actually installed, so people could boot into any of them to check them out. Jason - regarding during-installation downloads on Ubuntu, you should know that a) that's an option, not required, and b) we finally got the local archive mirror working such that you can use that option without going out to the Internet at all. We don't have the disk space on fish (the archive mirror) for distros other than Ubuntu, but we do have plenty of disk space on the ISO burning machine, so shoot me your requests and I'll try to get them loaded for April. - Tony