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Re[2]: Announce: KDE Beta 3 released (fwd)
Rafi Sadowsky <rafi@TELEM.openu.ac.il> wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Evgeny Stambulchik wrote:
>
> For example, every university has
> > a local copy of slackware, which is meaningless since it doesn't matter
> whether
> > one downloads it from his local campus server at 1Mb/s or from another one
> at
> > 150Kb/s
> FACT: all Israeli universies are connected with 10Mb/sec backbone
> (as a matter of fact it is full dublux - so better than LAN ethernet )
First off, AFAIK, Mb == MegaBYTE, while the backbone is 10M (for short, M ==
MegaBIT/sec). Second, that doesn't mean every connection gets the whole
bandwidth. The number (150Kilobytes/s) is an average one from my own experience.
That also depends whether the local router decides to use the backbone or a
backup (usually, 256kilobIts/s) direct line to the destination campus.
> In fact, I belive
> > there are no civilized countries but Israel left which don't have a single
> > complete mirror of sunsite on an academic ftp server.
> well criticisizing is easy - not that I'm claiming that there is any
> planning
> why not do something about it @weizmann ?
You must have been confused. I have NO affiliation with the Weizmann CC. And
from my experience, the mood of key figures at the CC regarding Linux is such
that the less you deal with them, the better is both for your health and for
Linux as such.
> did you know that over 50% of the capcicty of the overloaded
> TAU(MACHBA)-IIX line was used by ppl from SP's pull stuff from mirrors on
> ftp.tau.ac.il ?
If this poses a problem for MACHBA users - why not to define different policies
for requests coming from IIX and from inside the MACHBA?
Regards,
Evgeny
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