Hi Mark,

> same here and likely on most every other BBS carrying the area in question...

Yeah... I can see the 'once in a while big file' going through our
distribution but not every week...

>>> Janis's system as she has slow upload speeds e.g., 40-50 Kb.

>> Yes, sometimes I can't believe how the U.S. handles upload/download
>> speeds :( We have about 58Mbps Download, and on a good day, 5.8 Mbps
>> upload.. god forbid the cable provider should give people the same
>> download speed as their upload speed :( :(

>it is a commercialization problem... greedy fscks and bean counters are runnin
> the ops, these days... the thought is that the majority of transactions are
> downloads to the client systems... anything that is running servers should be
> paying for commercial access for uploading speeds to be equal or greater than
> download speeds...

That's what they hit us with because we run servers, and we do pay a
business rate.  Sickening... part of that is Ron's having to run test beds
of servers, and his company does compensate us for that (sort of) with
expense reports.  Of course our ISP also considers a binkD server a
"server" Lol  Anyway, we take into account 'my servers' when he
puts in his expense report, so we don't get a ton back from those expense
reports, of course... but it's something.

>> I can switch you to crash send, Vince.. that will help a lot. My
>> system crashes mail and files to a lot of people, so it won't hurt to
>> send to you that way.

> that might help but it depends on your upload speed and how full your pipe is
> at the time of the transfer...

I have two nodes out of 15 that I dedicate to the people I crash to.. Those
two nodes get real busy first when anything goes out from here with those
folks. When file announcements, etc. go out, that's when the other nodes
get 'busy'. And yes, sometimes all the nodes are full up and things umm.. s
l o w  d o w n
:)

Take care,
Janis

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