On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 07:20:15PM -0600, Bob Tanner wrote: > 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. > I wasn't implying that the bandwidth wasn't there, merely that it's better to waste someone else's bandwidth on the ISO's and use Real Time's donated bandwidth on things that are either harder to find, or simply easier to get from there. Many sites mirror redhat stuff, I don't see a lot with apt'ified repositories, or some of the other things being mirrored. > Further, the 50Kb/s does not kick in until over 100Mb, so getting updates, > kernels, and most everything does not incur the throttle penalty. *nod*, a perfectly reasonable policy. -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://techmonkeys.org/~poptix GPG public key 0x01938203