From owner-freebsd-hackers  Thu Feb 18 19:52:34 1999
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To: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
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Subject: Re: cdrom.com bandwidth limits 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 19:49:54 -0800
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>It seem obvious that ftp.cdrom.com has a limit of about 56kbs...is this
>a good idea? Considering that to download a release it now takes all day 
>instead of 30 minutes, it substantially increases the chances of a failure
>and that multiple attempts will have to be made, which increases the
>overall bandwidth requirements rather than decreasing them. It also 
>increases the number of simultanous downloads that are occuring. 

   ftp.cdrom.com has no bandwidth limiting.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project


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