From owner-freebsd-hubs Mon Jul 1 13:58:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A03137B400 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:58:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from natto.numachi.com (natto.numachi.com [198.175.254.216]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0400E43E09 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:58:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reichert@numachi.com) Received: (qmail 74584 invoked by uid 1001); 1 Jul 2002 20:58:52 -0000 Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 16:58:52 -0400 From: Brian Reichert To: Garrett Wollman Cc: Brian Reichert , freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FW: mirroring FreeBSD Message-ID: <20020701165852.H262@numachi.com> References: <20020629004058.L8223@numachi.com> <20020629005930.M8223@numachi.com> <200207012036.g61KadNm079872@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200207012036.g61KadNm079872@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from wollman@lcs.mit.edu on Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 04:36:39PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 04:36:39PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: > < said: > > > All I did was step though ftp1...ftp10 (or whatever), and look at > > ping times. > > You probably shouldn't care about ping times. What matters for a bulk > transfer like FTP is throughput. Try downloading a few, fairly large > files, and see which server gives you the best transfer rate. Oh, true. But it helped me narrow down the list to two or three candidates. > > -GAWollman > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message > -- Brian 'you Bastard' Reichert 37 Crystal Ave. #303 Daytime number: (603) 434-6842 Derry NH 03038-1713 USA Intel architecture: the left-hand path To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message