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

[Dan Kolb]

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On Sunday 27 January 2002 11:10, Jo Knight wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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.

It could possibly be that because mirror.ac.uk is sitting inside JANet, it's 
bandwidth-limited to outside the JANet network, hence you're only getting 
20k/sec. Here in Oxford, where we're connected to JANet, I get download 
speeds of about 400-500kBytes/sec (regularly).

Dan
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