[Gllug] Downloads from mirror.ac.uk and good mirror sites

[Stuart Children]

On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 11:10:48AM +0000, Jo Knight wrote:
> Ive just had the BlueYonder broadband installed. Ive got it all working fine
> on my gateway box. So Ive started to hog the bandwitdh and download a few
> ISO images and other stuff from mirror.ac.uk and noticed that I keep getting
> speeds of about 20k/sec. Ive had better speeds when accessing stuff from the
> states, and just wanted to know if there was a problem with BlueYonder and
> mirror.ac.uk.

I'm also on BlueYonder... I often get a solid 60Kb/s off it, but the past 
week or so it's been a bit dodgy (dropped to 10Kb/s at one point 
yesterday). However, other people I know have been seeing this on other 
connections, so I think the problem's with mirror.ac. I'm sure it'll pick 
up again - it's generally very good from anywhere in the UK IME.

One thing... BlueYonder's web cache can be a bit crap at times I've found. 
Are you downloading over http or ftp? I'd suggest the latter.

-- 
Stuart

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