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From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
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Subject: Re: new all-time traffic record on wcarchive
To: obrien@NUXI.com (David O'Brien)
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 16:25:25 -0500 (EST)
Cc: dg@root.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <19970221120557.OM32177@dragon.nuxi.com> from David O'Brien at "Feb 21, 97 12:05:57 pm"
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> >
> > Course those changes have made cdrom.com unusable for a large portion
> > of the state of Michigan.  We're getting a few bytes/sec transfer rates
> > here (and im all DS3 to Mae-East at least.  Oh well.  I've finally
> > resorted to doing the ftp via a 256k link I have into Sprint.  Its
> > clipping along quite nicely at the moment.
>
> Oh god!  You are actually getting packets from Sprint to cdrom.com????
> Ever since the entire Northern part of the University of California
> system went from BARNNet and CERFNet to Sprintlink, I haven't had
> anything BUT extreamly high packets loses.  Sprint is *really* good about
> bullshitting when the UC Office of the President opens a trouble ticket.
> They never tell the truth what is wrong, and always flattly lie for the
> first 12hrs of so of trouble.

It works quite well actually.  In fact my 2.1.7 retrieval completed in record
time for me, even over a 256k link!

-Crh

       Charles Henrich     Michigan State University     henrich@msu.edu

                         http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich