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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!ariel!mungarra!clive From: clive@mungarra.asis.unimelb.edu.au (Clive Newall) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: How about a few more Australian mirrors Keywords: Mirror Message-ID: <clive.716800642@mungarra> Date: 18 Sep 92 07:17:22 GMT References: <1992Sep17.043629.5188@mel.dit.csiro.au> <1992Sep17.201012.4665@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> <19a0ufINNcrl@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> <1992Sep18.135342.13854@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> Sender: news@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU Distribution: aus Lines: 14 rcskb@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Kendall Bennett) writes: >Archie.au is situated at Deakin University in Geelong (a bit over hour's >drive from from Melbourne where I am situated), and we get around 500k >transfer rates using ftp on good days, and about 300-400k on average! >Compared to 2-5k we get going to kirk.bu.oz.au, this is phenomenal... Actually, archie.au (aka plaza.aarnet.edu.au) is situated at Melb. Uni. on the aarnet backbone. The original archie.au was indeed an overworked host at Deakin, but moved many moons ago. Clive Newall E-mail: clive@asis.unimelb.EDU.AU Information Technology Services (ASIS), University of Melbourne. Disclaimer: This is ME talking. Not ITS. Not the University.