Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 19:49:54 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cdrom.com bandwidth limits Message-ID: <199902190349.TAA03803@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 18 Feb 1999 14:13:20 EST." <199902181903.OAA06719@etinc.com>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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