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[ale] Mirrors. was tftp



On 10/27/05, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dow Hurst wrote:
> > I tend to use the ftp.ale.org since it is quite fast.
>
> Huh?  ftp.ale.org is capped (probably for a good reason too).  I find
> that ibiblio (Duke U.), gatech (Atlanta), secsup (UUnet) and sometimes
> even kernel.org (ISC, San Jose) to usually be faster.  Don't believe
> me?, wait until a slow Internet day and simultaneously start a few
> concurrent downloads and watch the KBs rate.
>
> -Jim P.

This is true.  I wish I could uncap it, and they say it would be ok to
have it at 100mb/s if not for other equipment on the same segment that
would not like the competition.

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