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From: rb9a@watt.acc.Virginia.EDU (Raul Baragiola)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Downloading
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Date: 9 Nov 90 02:55:40 GMT
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In article <1990Nov7.171211.15587@uwasa.fi> hv@uwasa.fi (Harri Valkama LAKE) writes:
>In article <1990Nov7.025027.18746@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> rb9a@watt.acc.Virginia.EDU (Raul Baragiola) writes:
>>I tried to get files from the large library at chyde.uwasa.fi
>>Here I can get in, but the connection is terribly slow.  I managed
>>to get a file at 0.030 kB/s (Thats 30 bytes per second !!!), one
>>somewhat (not much) faster than this but, in most cases, the
>>remote system hang the connection.
>
>That  is probably because in  Central Europe they are having  troubles
>with the connections.  I  know because I   was trying nearly  the same
>connection  only on the  opposite direction.   It  broke  down several
>times.   Luckily  we have  such fine utilities   like batchftp.  Also,
>remember this and don't judge sites and there reachabilities after one
>trying. It is not fair...
>
>-- 
>== Harri Valkama, University of Vaasa, Finland ================================

Easy, easy, I did not judge your site, neither I tried once.  In fact,
I have high regards for the people who take their time to make it 
available to all of us. What is fair is that I share several suggestions
I got, which should also help to decrease the interatlantic data flow:

 "wuarchive.wustl.edu has a complete coppy of the Simtel20 archives
 under /mirrors/msdos. They also have the complete archive of this newsgroup
 under /usenet/comp.binaries.ibm.pc.  They might even have a few more files
 under /systems/ibmpc and /pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS.  It is a".edu" site so you should
 have no problem connecting and the download rate is much better than Simtel and
 much much better than Chyde.  I rarely ever have problems getting logged on
 there either.  In short, they have one of the largest archives of public domain
 and shareware software anywhere.  Good luck and happy hunting!" 

Enjoy,


Raul A. Baragiola                               \Internet: raul@virginia.edu
Dept. Nuclear Engnr. and Engnr. Physics          \Phone: (804)-982-2907
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22901 \ Fax: (804)-924-6270