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

[tet at accucard.com]

>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).

Nope. I regularly max out my ADSL line when downloading from mirror.ac.uk.
I'm more inclined to believe this to be a BlueYonder issue. FYI, you might
also want to try http://sunsite.org.uk for UK mirrors of useful stuff.

Tet

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