Querying on mirroring FreeBSD Web and FTP sites in UK academic site.

Josef Karthauser joe
Fri Sep 24 11:33:30 BST 1999


On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 10:49:32AM +0100, L. Cranswick wrote:
> 
> 
> > Out of interest,  I dont suppose that anyone could (when they next install) 
> > install from the freebsd uk site no 2 ( now mirror.ac.uk) and let me 
> > know what sort of speed they get?  I am curious to know what sort of rates
> > are being supplied to off campus both round janet and off of janet.  As the
> > speed I get is probably a little unfair being two switches and a hub away
> > from the servers.
> 
> To Daresbury Lab, I am getting around 250 to 350kB a second.
> 
> Lachlan.

Has anyone tried an install from Sunsite lately?  Has it recovered properly
since they rebuilt it.  (And I do mean sunsite, not ftp.uk.freebsd.org, which
is not currently sunsite.)

Joe
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