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Date:      Thu, 18 Feb 1999 22:41:32 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <dyson@iquest.net>
To:        ck@ns1.adsu.bellsouth.com (Christian Kuhtz)
Cc:        vincef@penmax.com, dennis@etinc.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cdrom.com bandwidth limits
Message-ID:  <199902190341.WAA00795@y.dyson.net>
In-Reply-To: <19990218160929.Z12713@ns1.adsu.bellsouth.com> from Christian Kuhtz at "Feb 18, 99 04:09:29 pm"

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Christian Kuhtz said:
> 
> I can only agree with Vincent.  You got a slow sucky pipe. :)
> 
> On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 04:02:52PM -0500, Vincent Fleming wrote:
> > Huh?  I just downloaded the ports collection at average speed 
> > above 50 k BYTES PER SECOND!
> > 
> > Perhaps you just got it at a slow time.  I've seen ftp.cdrom.com
> > hit 200 k bytes per second.  I've even installed FreeBSD off of it in
> > less than 20 minutes, including ALL the sources and ports!
> > 
> 
Normally on a good T1, I get about 120-160k Bytes per second, but
during "bad days" (net-wise, not wcarchive load wise), I have seen
50-60KBytes/sec.

-- 
John                  | Never try to teach a pig to sing,
dyson@iquest.net      | it makes one look stupid
jdyson@nc.com         | and it irritates the pig.


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