Re: Alternatives to SIMTEL20?

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From: John Kellow
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 1990 22:57

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Thanks to all the people that responded to my query for alternative
sites to SIMTEL20 for anonymous ftp of PC software.  Just for anyone
else that didn't know, several people correctly pointed out that
wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4) maintains a mirror image of the
SIMTEL msdos archives in /mirrors/msdos.  As some people also pointed
out, this site can be just as slow as SIMTEL20.  A quick check
confirmed this.  On a sunday afternoon, I got 0.18 kbyte/s transferring
the complete index (417K).  I would say this is even slower than SIMTEL20
but at least it didn't time out half way through the transfer, and
I didn't have any problem getting a connection.  I have a feeling that
my site is on the slow side for internet connections to begin with, so
your mileage may vary.


John Kellow
kellow@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu

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From: kellow@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu (John Kellow)
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Subject: Re: Alternatives to SIMTEL20?
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Date: 11 Mar 90 22:57:45 GMT
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