[arch-general] 'Local mirror' page was removed from wiki

Fess killall_humans at lavabit.com
Tue Sep 14 14:36:41 EDT 2010


On 13:29 Tue 14 Sep , David C. Rankin wrote:
> On 09/14/2010 12:08 PM, Fess wrote:
>> 1)Have you heard about 3rd party mirrors?
>   Yep - it's bandwidth for somebody
>
>> 2)People who use gnome must die. No, really - too much traffic on servers.
>   To each his own - I'm using fluxbox at the moment :p (very small)
>
>> 3)With local mirror you have fast internet, i think.
>   I'm talking about "My slow internet". Go figure, my ISP is the same for 
> home/work. Home I get 5M down + fixed IP for $65, for work (same ISP, but 
> considered 'commercial' I get 1M down + fixed IP for $90) -- screw job 
> for sure. A 1M pipe is a really small pipe for gigabit downloads :(
>
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I still don't get it.. You have small pipe. But a lot of people have bigger. So - if you can't use - do not use it.
Why EVERYONE shouldn't use it?
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