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Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 08:07:18 -0500
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: Paul Derbyshire <pderbysh AT usa DOT net>
Subject: Re: Q: Forcing mode CO80
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At 01:40 PM 2/4/99 +0200, you wrote:
>FWIW, I never had any problems with FTP from SimTel.NET, although I 
>almost exclusively download from USA sites to my far corner of the 
>world.  ftp.simtel.net works 95% of the time, and if it doesn't I use 
>ftp.cdrom.com.

ftp.cdrom.com used to be really unreliable but they shaped up recently...it
always works perfectly. But the other day ftp.simtel.net was down for hours
on end. And so were a shitload of others. I had a web page listing FTP
sites mirroring something, with links for each. I tried all the nearby
ones, first in the province, then in North America. All bombed ... every
site was down at the same freaking time except one that no longer mirrored
the file. (cdrom.com wasn't one of the mirrors for this file.) I then tried
two Japanese servers and another in Switzerland (or was it Sweden?). All 3
were down. I picked another one, this time in the UK, and it (finally) worked.


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