[H-GEN] tomorrow's meeting

[Greg Black]

On 2003-04-11, Stuart Longland wrote:
> Sandra Milne wrote:
> 
> > Will there be a fileserver with ISOs at tomorrow's meeting? I recall
> > last time I was there I couldn't get better than 30k/s from the
> > mirror.aarnet which made it impossible to download some updated ISOs.
> >
> 
> Odd?  During the Brismesh/Humbug meeting I can recall downloading
> FreeBSD 5.0 at about 300Kbps.  Then again, the possibility exists that I
> happened to strike it lucky and ended up with a majority of the pipe.

I think it's pretty clear that performance at meetings is quite
erratic, and that the reasons are varied.  When it's going well,
performance is impressive; when it's not, it's not.  Certainly,
you cannot count on being able to download lots of stuff at any
particular meeting.

Greg

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