From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Dec 17 05:37:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA27003 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 05:37:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA26998 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 05:37:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.8.7/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA25789; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 08:36:18 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 08:35:23 -0500 (EST) From: Steve Hovey To: Bill Vermillion cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Usenet performance issues (was Re: RAID solutions?) In-Reply-To: <199812171212.HAA00175@bilver.magicnet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Bill Vermillion wrote: > George Wenzel recently said: > > > Dnews was more than a major performance gain. > > Thanks for the real-world experience of using that. > > > While we are talking about news, I should mention SkyCache. > > (www.skycache.com) Through Skycache, for a fraction of what > > I nomally pay for bandwidth, I get a full news feed pulled off > > of a dish sitting on my roof. The news I get off of the dish > > is fresh and always here before news from any of my NNTP peers > > and backbone feeds (CWIX and Sprint). Thats the function of having multiple peers - 2 really isnt enough. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Steve Hovey Chief Network Administrator BuffNET More Than Just a Connection! ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message