[newbie] Looking for fast FTP site

[rgm]

I am looking for a fast and reliable FTP site to download Mandrake 8.0  I 
have fast access to the net, I work for an ISP, I have just been lucky in 
finding sites that suck so bad they bend light.

Thank you,
Riley 
Linux Guru In The Rough...i.e. newbie
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when 
we created them. - Albert Einstein 

Re: [newbie] Looking for fast FTP site

[Nathan Hopper]

  I am looking for a fast and reliable FTP site to download Mandrake 8.0
I
  have fast access to the net, I work for an ISP, I have just been lucky
in
  finding sites that suck so bad they bend light.
 

I'm at a Internet2 university, so that makes a huge difference in DL speeds,
but generally I find that .edu sites located in the continental US (given
that the ISP you work for is continental US...) have good connections.

I generally don't bother DLing from a site with a ping worse than 100ms.
Your mileage will vary -- 100ms may be unreasonably fast for you.

ftp://jungle.metalab.unc.edu is a decent site. ftp://ftp.software.umn.edu
may work good for you, however I have no way of knowing as I am only 4 hops
away from that machine.

Avoid Tucows. I've never gotten good speeds from them, seldom over 25k/sec.
That's way too slow for an ISO.

Regards,
Nathan