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From: dillon@best.com (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Internet service providing-which OS?
Date: 22 Jul 1995 10:08:17 -0700
Organization: Best Internet Communications, Inc. (info@best.com)
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References: <3ue5qa$ain@panix.com> <3uoiet$bgu@orion.cc.andrews.edu> <3upgga$oqo@usenet.interramp.com> <3upmq7$11f@agate.berkeley.edu>
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:In article <3upmq7$11f@agate.berkeley.edu>,
:Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@violet.berkeley.edu> wrote:
:>In article <3upgga$oqo@usenet.interramp.com>,
:>Tom Czarnik <czarnik@vista.netmanage.com> wrote:
:>>ftp.cdrom.com is that busy because it primarily acts as a mirror
:>>for other archives, whereas CICA's ftp server is the real archive.
:>
:>Bzzzzt! Sorry, but thanks for playing!
:>
:>ftp.cdrom.com is the official home of Slackware Linux, FreeBSD, the
:>DOOM archives, POVRAY and numerous other projects. We're hardly
:>just a mirror, not even primarily!
:>
:> Jordan
Gentlemen. If I remember correctly, ftp.cdrom.com is sitting on
a BARRNET T3 backbone and, on average, pulls about 6 MBytes / sec
in bandwidth. That's on the order of 4 T1 equivalences!
Or is it more?
-Matt