[plug] Local Debian Repository

[James Devenish]

In message <20031229112246.GA4193 at erdos.home>
on Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 07:22:46PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 06:56:21PM +0800, James Devenish wrote:
> | > And if you come to the next Plug workshop (at UCC) you can
> | > take advantage of UWA's 10mbit link to WAIX to update your mirror.
> | 
> | s:10mbit link to WAIX:1Gb/s link to PARNet and 100Mb[/s] link to WAIX:
> | 
> | Or has something been downgraded?
> 
> Dunno.  I'm not a UWA person, I was just guessing from the fact that I
> got ~1mb/sec download rates last time I was tried.  (A few months ago
> now.)  I vaguely recall hearing that the Guild building only had a
> 10mbit link to the rest of UWA?  Presumably you'd know more about that
> than I, though.

I haven't noticed a drop, so I think it's still a 100Mb/s connexion. I
guess that confounding factors for downloads from mirrors are concurrent
users and administrative limits. Other than that, there might be a
limiting artefact in the way the PLUG meetings are connected/firewalled.