On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Terp Turtle wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, you wrote:
>
> > Also, could somebody please talk to the folks running some of the other
> > big mirror sites and see if they could mirror it? I was thinking of
> > metalab.unc.edu (which carries Mandrake already, but not cooker) and
> > sunsite.ualberta.ca (which carries some linux distros, but not Mandrake at
> > all)
>
> I've never had luck with Canadian sites. They seem to be slow - both for
> updating and downloads for some reason.
You're right, most Canadian sites seem to have a problem with speed (and
if you look at a traceroute it's no wonder). sunsite.ualberta.ca seems to
provide good speeds for me both at work and at home, as SunSites are
funded by Sun and get good machines and lots of bandwidth (160Kbytes/sec
right now). metalab.unc.edu used to be sunsite.unc.edu (at U of NC) and
is a very popular mirror site.
Besides, more mirrors can't hurt, right? All of the non-North American
sites don't do me much good, but they are useful for some people. These
mirrors will be useful to some people.
Ian
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