Re: Mirror sites, PLEASE!

Jake (jake@ams.com)
Mon, 7 Apr 1997 02:37:37 -0500 (CDT)

On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, Jacob H. Suter wrote:

> > >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 :-)
>
> well netcom had something mangled pretty badly.. its betterish now, but
> not 100% there. My upstream is currently 10mbps to UUNET, 10mbps
> Mae-houston, 10mbps phoenix.net (to hook up to c-net or e-net or something
> - its a south-american network), 3mbps to MCI/Sprint via fibr.net, and
> either has or soon to have a T1 to BBN Planet.
>
> the link between UUNET and Insync was a bit flanky saturday, but I
> tracerouted and found we were going through fibr.net and there was little

Yes so was accesscomm.net. They have switched to fibr.net (time warner)
from MCI.

> lag across the link to on the trip to netcom until we hit netcom's
> network.
>
> So, netcom is lame, what kind of news is that? :)

Oh well. Hey try downloading something from the pub/livingston site at
ftp.ams.com and see what sort of speed you get.

>
> JS
>
>

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