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Re: 1.99p6 for everybody!



Sounds true. With a limit of 5 FTP users at ARDI, and a connection of 
28.8 baud, each user gets around 5000 baud.
At that rate, a three meg download would take three hours or so!

On Sun, 12 Nov 1995, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:

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> >>>>> "ctm" == Clifford T Matthews <ctm@ardi.com> writes:
> 
>  ctm> It appears that Jered Floyd, maintainer of vorlon.mit.edu is
>  ctm> unavailable to fix the problem that is preventing vorlon from
>  ctm> mirroring ftp.ardi.com, so vorlon may not pick up the new stuff
>  ctm> until Monday.
> 
> I don't understand; vorlon.mit.edu appears to have picked up 1.99p6 at
> midnight last night, just like it advertises.  The only problem is
> that it took until 5-6 AM to finish, probably because the ardi.com
> link was hosed.
> 
> It seems to me that having MORE sites mirroring ftp.ardi.com would
> only make this problem worse, unless you stagger their mirroring
> times...
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