Original message from: Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 11:43:02 +1000
>Con Kolivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> >
>> >Those poor Aussies. New York. Someone was out of their mind.
:-P
>>
>> Yes that's right. My brother gets files from my machine via Los
>> Angeles... even though we're both 5 mins away from each other in
>> Melbourne, Australia!
>> :(
>>
>
>It isn't the distance that counts so much as the server. I get
better
>results from mirrors in the UK than from some that are only a few
hundred
>miles distant.
I don't doubt that but the bandwidth between my machine and my
brothers can be made ten times larger by simply downloading ten things
concurrently from my machine.
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