Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 11:32:16 -0500 From: Hal Snyder <hal@post.vale.com> To: "'freebsd-chat@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Microsoft's overwhelmed FTP servers Message-ID: <01BB8DC2.139CB6F0@jaguar.vale.com>
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cmcurtin@research.megasoft.com wrote: ... >Let's see... that's about 5300 or so requests per hour, assuming a >steady stream of them. Hmm. I notice the IE download page shows five >servers in Redmond offering IE. >So we're talking ~1100 requests per hour per machine. And *that* is >overwhelming demand?! Hahahaahahah!! ftp.cdrom.com does that many >*at the same time.* Would it not be more fair to compare bytes per hour? Internet Exploder is a large file, probably much larger than the average download from ftp.cdrom.com. I'd sure like to see objective comparisons of FreeBSD v. NT networking, shorn of marketing hype and O/S holy war rhetoric. P.S.: Is there a way to query on-line current download stats for ftp.cdrom.com? I remember around the time Quake came out someone (David Greenman?) posted some impressive numbers.
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