Re: Mirror sites, PLEASE!

Stephen Fisher (lithium@cia-g.com)
Sat, 5 Apr 1997 18:41:37 -0700 (MST)

It also depends a lot on who you're connected through:

[Sat Apr 5 18:39:33 MST 1997]

>From behind InternetMCI:
pm_3.5.3_BSDOS_2.0.tar.Z: 2367347 bytes received in 20.49 seconds,
112.82 K/s.

>From behind ANS:
pm_3.5.3_BSDOS_2.0.tar.Z: 2367347 bytes received in 72.00 seconds,
32.11 kB/s.

Big difference :-)

On Sat, 5 Apr 1997, Tim Flavin wrote:

> On Sat, 5 Apr 1997, Jacob H. Suter wrote:
>
> > Either there has to be some mirrors, or you gotta get a real upstream
> > because this is just...sad.
>
> I've thought the same thing for a long time, but then when you realize
> Livingston is connect to Netcom, and their largest customer is Netcom,
> what good would this suggestion really be?