"Mark Adamson" <fliblebibble@adamsonfdfgdf.com> wrote in message
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> "Shane Carpenter" <news@shanes_replace_nospam_with_org.nospam> wrote in
> message news:430b045d$0$2497$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com...
> >>>> Mark Adamson<fliblebibble@adamsonfdfgdf.com> 23/08/2005 11:37 >>>
> >>I was really just showing off the uni connection, which I have yet to
find
> >>a
> >>particularly good use for other than downloading linux dvds (which
funnily
> >>take longer to copy from the browser temp dir to the save location than
> >>they
> >>do to download into the temp dir in the first place).
> >
> > Wow, that's a slow Janet link, my friend is an IT manager at a uni with
a
> > 100mb Internet pipe :)

most of the big pipes in the UK academic network are 10G - so you are "only"
getting a small chunk.

the bandwidth you get will be limited by which Uni and any bandwidth
limiting they do.

Network map for JANet:
http://www.janet.ac.uk/about/topolog...eschematic.pdf


> >
>
> I expect they split it up depending on who you are, that speed test was in
> the library, last time I checked in halls we 'only' get up to an 8meg
chunk,
> though that was 3 years ago, I shall know better in October.
--
Regards

Stephen Hope - return address needs fewer xxs