** Reply to message from "Carl Lowenstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri,
18 Apr 2008 13:32:31 -0700

> My choice at the moment is Argonne National Laboratory, where they
> have a large selection and a 10Gbps network connection.  Besides, we
> taxpayers are supporting it.
> 
> <ftp://mirror.anl.gov/pub>

but if the pipes between you and them are rotten, the size of a sippy straw,
or congested, you still end up with 30Kb/s downloading.  All I know is that
I get way better throughput when I used european mirrors. Tyically in the
300-500kB/s and up range.

Doug


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