Yesterday at 9:52pm, Robert Giles expounded: ++ At 09:38 PM 4/4/02 -0600, Paul Sack wrote: ++ >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. ++ ++ Kept thinking it was the vBNS project (initially sponsored by MCI) that was ++ doing all the University<->University links... interesting to know :)
Hrm. He said Qwest. It might be a combination of several companies. With Qwest providing the bulk of the bandwidth. ++ Must have been an interesting talk, where'd you find out about it at? Oh, he gave the talk once at a EE telecommunications seminar. I heard it when my telecomm networks course professor had to miss a day, so he filled in. *Very* interesting talk. I think most of us have an idea of how a small business might setup a network, but don't have any idea how to scale that to, e.g., ~ 60k users. ++ >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). ++ ++ I've done ~2200kb/sec between law library and stuff on ftp.the.net, ++ could almost burn a CD straight off the mirror :) That's true. I guess my point is that it is worth some effort to get a local mirror, but not a huge amount. (If you have to wait 10 minutes instead of 4 minutes for an ISO, that is not really a big deal.) Also, connections to educational mirrors should be somewhat immune to the Slashdot effect (e.g., everyone trying to get KDE 3.0 the day it is released). -- Trying to establish voice contact ... please yell into keyboard. _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
