Today at 9:23pm, Robert Giles expounded:
++ At 08:05 PM 4/4/02 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
++ >http://129.116.18.6/pub/
++
++ Thanks for the mirror - after reading some of the responses earlier,
++ I ended up downloading it from one of the mirrors (about 6pm or so
++ from utah.edu, d'oh!).
Okay, I have some UI for all of you - I attended a lecture by Prof. Bill
Bard (ECE), who was very involved in the design of the UT network, about
the design of said network.
According to him:
Qwest sells something like 5% of its capacity to paying customers. They
have sold a good portion of the rest of it at heavily discounted prices to
universities for purposes of connecting to each other (only). So you
should be able to get incredibly fast transfers to any university from any
university.
Just to test it, I downloaded src.tar.gz from the main OpenBSD site, which
is hosted at the University of Alberta, to a EE computer:
69406957 bytes received in 105.09 secs (645.0 kB/s)
(If utah.edu was slow, that is either a network misconfiguration
somewhere, or utah.edu is not part of the Qwest academic backbone.)
A local UT mirror would be a bit faster, maybe. Many mirrors have login
limits, though, and a local mirror could not have login limits for local
traffic (like ftp.the.net).
--
Bride, n.:
A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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