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From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
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Subject: Re: 2.2-BETA installation floppies don't work
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Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 10:01:52 -0500 (EST)
Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199612250904.BAA02062@root.com> from David Greenman at "Dec 25, 96 01:04:49 am"
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> >~70K/sec, with the X distributions (larger .tgz files) I was getting
> >consistantly 200K+/sec (this is all over a cable network, sort of like an
> >install one T1 away from cdrom.com).
>
>    Yes, well, most people are getting the bits with dialup SLIP or PPP and
> 240K/chunk is rather large in that case. I'd prefer that the chunk size
> stay at 240K...

I was giving this some more thought, and I think doing Passive FTP ought to
help a ton, will verify later.

-Crh

       Charles Henrich     Michigan State University     henrich@msu.edu

                         http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich