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To: obrien@NUXI.com (David O'Brien)
cc: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich), freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: new all-time traffic record on wcarchive 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 08:09:04 -0800
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>Charles Henrich writes:
>> In lists.freebsd.chat you write:
>>
>> Course those changes have made cdrom.com unusable for a large portion
>> of the state of Michigan.  We're getting a few bytes/sec transfer rates
>> here (and im all DS3 to Mae-East at least.  Oh well.  I've finally
>> resorted to doing the ftp via a 256k link I have into Sprint.  Its
>> clipping along quite nicely at the moment.
>
>Oh god!  You are actually getting packets from Sprint to cdrom.com????
>Ever since the entire Northern part of the University of California
>system went from BARNNet and CERFNet to Sprintlink, I haven't had
>anything BUT extreamly high packets loses.  Sprint is *really* good about
>bullshitting when the UC Office of the President opens a trouble ticket.
>They never tell the truth what is wrong, and always flattly lie for the
>first 12hrs of so of trouble.
>
>Die Sprintnet, Die!!!

   Actually, I've had fairly good success with Sprint<->CRL. My own provider
is multi-homed with one foot in Sprint, so my packets go through Sprint when
connecting with cdrom.com. I wonder if your congestion problems are specific
to UC Davis or perhaps Sprint's connectivity out of the Davis/Sacramento
area?

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project