From: noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer)
Subject: Re: More American gnu-win32 mirrors needed!
24 Feb 1998 09:58:56 -0800
Message-ID: <199802232304.PAA27276.cygnus.gnu-win32@rtl.cygnus.com>
References: <004801bd3f49$998848d0$3a85a980 AT magnon DOT phys DOT utk DOT edu>
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To: wku1 AT utk DOT edu
Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com, noer AT cygnus DOT com

Wei Ku wrote:
> 
> I may be able to help with the distribution by providing a FTP mirror.
> 
> I have a Windows NT Workstation with 6GB Hard Drive  located in University
> of Tennessee. The network only provides 10 MB/sec bandwidth.
> 
> I need to estimate the average bandwidth and the amount of disk space
> necessary in order to convince my boss to support the FTP mirror. Would you
> please post the information ( estimated ).

The current and last release together take up ~200 MB.  I don't have
an estimate for the bandwidth.  It's would probably be quite large but you
could limit the number of concurrant users to limit bandwidth...

To reduce the size of the mirror, you could just mirror the current
release or something I guess...

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Geoffrey Noer
noer AT cygnus DOT com
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