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From: rcskb@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Kendall Bennett)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: How about a few more Australian mirrors
Keywords: Mirror
Message-ID: <1992Sep18.135342.13854@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 18 Sep 92 18:53:42 GMT
References: <1992Sep17.043629.5188@mel.dit.csiro.au> <1992Sep17.201012.4665@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> <19a0ufINNcrl@uniwa.uwa.edu.au>
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre, Melbourne Australia.
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comrade@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Peter Cooper) writes:

>And been getting really bad lately.  Apparently the international link
>is saturated a lot of the time now.  Could it be that archie.au is such
>a good archive site? :) I heard that garbo rebuilt after a hd crash from
>wuarchive and archie.

Archie.au is situated at Deakin University in Geelong (a bit over hour's
drive from from Melbourne where I am situated), and we get around 500k
transfer rates using ftp on good days, and about 300-400k on average!
Compared to 2-5k we get going to kirk.bu.oz.au, this is phenomenal...

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