[Sunhelp] Re: [SunRescue] BeOS 5 Personal Edition available

P.A.Osborne P.A.Osborne at ukc.ac.uk
Wed Mar 29 04:53:02 CST 2000


On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 12:47:04PM +0200, Michael C. Vergallen wrote:
> Then again... you can never be certain about that... my connections to the
> states are fast but whenever visiting european sites the networks comes to
> a crawl of 1.2 Kb/s instead 6.7 - 7.0 Kb/s to the states... Probably
> because the ISP I have as uplink has a big backbone Link to the states
> then the trunk he has in europe. However within belgium connections have
> improved..


Thats a fair point,  but at the moment Be's site is being erm
beaten up,  so a UK mirror may be quicker.

I have just found out though that mirror.ac.uk  is having lots
of connections pulling RedHat 6.2 .....

:-)

Paul

> 
> Michael
> --- 
> Michael C. Vergallen A.k.A. Mad Mike, 
> Sportstraat 28			http://www.double-barrel.be/mvergall/
> B 9000 Gent			ftp://ftp.double-barrel.be/pub/linux/
> Belgium				tel : 32-9-2227764 Fax : 32-9-2224976
> 			
> On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, P.A.Osborne wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 07:14:21PM -0600, Bill Bradford wrote:
> > > For those of you who cant get through to www.be.com, check
> > > http://be.workstations.org - I've got the distribution downloaded
> > > already.
> > 
> > 
> > For those of you in the UK - 
> > http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.be.com/pub/beos/
> > 
> > 
> > May be a tad quicker - no offence Bill.
> > 
> > --Paul
> > --like mirror.ac.uk - but then its erm 10 yards from my office...
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