FTP.MICROSOFT.COM mirror sites
Gianluca Gambotto
packs? I have tried & tried to get onto FTP.MICROSOFT.COM, but it's
constantly very crowded (read bloody slow!)..
Hope someone can help..
Cheers,
Gianluca
Paul R. Stratton
Gianluca Gambotto <ggam...@macqbl.com.au> wrote:
>Can someone please tell me of a morror site that carries the NT 3.5 service
>packs? I have tried & tried to get onto FTP.MICROSOFT.COM, but it's
>constantly very crowded (read bloody slow!)..
I'll agree with you there. Try about 3pm Sunday afternoon PST (West Coast US
time). I got 67K a second then. Proves how popular that site is considering
they have one of the few T-3 lines in the US.
Paul Stratton
stra...@seattleu.edu
Sven Andreassen
stra...@news.seattleu.edu (Paul R. Stratton) wrote:
...
> I'll agree with you there. Try about 3pm Sunday afternoon PST (West Coast US
> time). I got 67K a second then. Proves how popular that site is considering
> they have one of the few T-3 lines in the US.
By the way... What is a T-3 line??
Sven Andreassen
Dan Little
sv...@OSLONETT.NO (Sven Andreassen) wrote:
>In article <3koqji$r...@bach.seattleu.edu>,
>stra...@news.seattleu.edu (Paul R. Stratton) wrote:
>> I'll agree with you there. Try about 3pm Sunday afternoon PST (West Coast US
>> time). I got 67K a second then. Proves how popular that site is considering
>> they have one of the few T-3 lines in the US.
>
>By the way... What is a T-3 line??
>
>Sven Andreassen
T-1 is a 1.5 MB/sec line.
Dan
Joseph Reginald Scott Molnar
You mean megabit, not megabyte (ie Mb not MB).
Operator
>Sven Andreassen
Voice phone lines are generally done over 56K analog lines. That's why the
limit for modem communications is less than 56K. You can timeslice
24 of these 56K voice channels onto a single "T1" line which is basically
a standard "allocation ammount" of bandwidth in the US. a T1 line holds
about 1.544 megabits. Now, a T3 line holds close to 45 Megahertz and
the physical medium is usually either a high grade copper connection or
microwave.
The "T1/T3" specification actually refers to a set of electrical standards,
but that gets a little to complicated for me.
My company makes DSUs which are basically "Digital Modems". Up until
lately we dealt mostly with telephone companies, but now I think we're doing
more business with end users. We got the "Microsoft contract" which means
that they'll be using our DSUs for the customer demarcation points from the
Microsoft Network. (I've been told that they took one look at "my" utilities
running under windows (Visual Basic) and said that they'd take it, but I
suppose I have to give the rest of the company some credit :-)
We also, by the way, make an internal DSU card (T1 rates). It currently
only runs in a Novel server, but I think we're seriously considering
doing the software drivers to run it under NT. If you think this would
be a good idea, feel free to bug marketing, I'd love to see us get a little
further into the PC market. Check out www.kentrox.com for more info.
Sorry, didn't mean to sound like an add, I just don't know when to stop
sometimes. I guess here is a good space.
Bill Kress,
ADC Kentrox
kr...@kentrox.com
Adam Hamilton
|> Can someone please tell me of a morror site that carries the NT 3.5 service
|> packs? I have tried & tried to get onto FTP.MICROSOFT.COM, but it's
|> constantly very crowded (read bloody slow!)..
|>
bussys/winnt/winnt-public/fixes/nt35/ussp2
there's even a fixlist.txt
And while we're talking about mirrors we also mirror the
Microsoft WWW and gopher servers. Start at
http://emwac.ed.ac.uk/
Andrew Laurence
A very high-speed leased digital phone line which I believe comprises some-
thing like 24 T-1 lines.
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