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Date: Mon, 1 Feb 93 11:34:49 EST
From: "Craig A. Summerhill" <craig@cni.org>

> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 12:51:43 -0800 (PST)
> From: Carol Brand <cbrand@nwnet.net>
>
> If you are concerned about using a server during peak times, you can do a
> couple of things.
>
> 1.  Hold your class in the evenings.
> 2.  Hold your class on a weekend.
> 3.  FTP to sites in other time zones, such as sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de
                                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

When I was in Europe in October, I couldn't get a telnet session open
with a host in the Eastern Time Zone because of the performance of the
backbone circuit running between Scandanavia and North America.

Therefore, this third suggestion concerns me a little bit.  Nets in Europe
and Australia are usually linked to the North American IP-Internet using much
'leaner' broadband lines than those we take for granted in the North
America (256K is a common backbone in Europe, compared to the predominant
T3 and T1 lines in North America).  Even if the host is not in a North
American time zone, there may be processes running on the overseas machine
(such as batch processed mail queues or FTP mirror jobs) which need the
trans-atlantic/pacific bandwidth to run in a reasonable time.

For this reason, many FTP sysops overseas will mirror their archives into
a host in North America, and request that people access that host rather
than tying up their tran-atlantic/pacific circuits with FTP sessions.
I'm not sure that picking a host overseas is acceptable until you have
exhausted your local/regional resources.
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   Craig A. Summerhill
   Systems Coordinator and Program Officer
   Coalition for Networked Information
   1527 New Hampshire Ave., N.W.
   Washington, D.C.   20036
   Internet:  craig@cni.org