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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!goanna!minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au!rcskb 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. Lines: 20 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... +------------------------------------------+-------------------------------+ | Kendall Bennett, | Internet: | | Advanced Computer Graphics Centre, | kjb@godzilla.cgl.citri.edu.au | | Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, | rcskb@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au | | Victoria, AUSTRALIA. | | +------------------------------------------+-------------------------------+ | CoSysop (Bossman), PC Connection Australia: +61 3 688 0909 | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+