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From: mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin)
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Subject: Re: SIMTEL????
Keywords: SIMTEL XMODEM YMODEM ZMODEM
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Date: 23 Mar 90 01:19:20 GMT
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In article <1990Mar22.224852.14842@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> brando@uiucme2.UUCP (Brando W. Brown) writes:
>I don't how often you others on the net login into SIMTEL via anonymous ftp.
>I have tried for the last two weeks at all times during the day and night
>including a try just last night at 4am, and it ALWAYS tells me that there are
>too many anonymous-ftp users and try again later; well, I did, with no avail.

Here's what's going on with SIMTEL:
1) The SIMTEL system itself is far from overloaded.
2) The problem is that their Internet connection is to the Milnet,
   which has had serious connectivity performance problems with the
   rest of the Internet.  A secondary problem is that SIMTEL's
   local Milnet packet switch had resource starvation problems.  The
   upshot of all of this was that SIMTEL's 56kb link to the world
   was being slowed down even more.
3) The problems on SIMTEL's Milnet packet switch are being fixed.
4) SIMTEL is working on getting a connection to NSFNET, which will
   avoid the Milnet connectivity problems.

Perhaps later this year this will all take place.
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