Quoting Matthew S. Hallacy (poptix at techmonkeys.org):
> Hey everyone, let's stop sucking up the bandwidth on ISO's, and instead use
> up someone else's with more bandwidth to waste:
> 
> ftp://limestone.uoregon.edu/redhat/
> 
> It's a complete mirror, including betas, and it's also very fast for AT&T 
> users.
> 
> There's also ftp://ftp.dulug.duke.edu/pub/redhat/ and www.redhat.com/mirrors

Let me restate.

We have the bandwidth, it's just that I prefer to give Real Time's paying
customers preference to that bandwidth. Thus, I throttle ftp connections to
gladiator since most of the bandwidth being consumed there is a "donation" to
the open source community.

Further, the 50Kb/s does not kick in until over 100Mb, so getting updates,
kernels, and most everything does not incur the throttle penalty.
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