OSL Gets Bandwidth Donation from TDS 73
kveton writes "The OSL is pleased to announce that TDS Telecom has donated 600 Mbits of connectivity in order to ramp up their mirror infrastructure. The projects hosted at the OSL can now upload to the mirrors co-located in the TDS facilities in Chicago and Atlanta via their main data center in Corvallis, OR."
Re:Now THAT'S a tax write off :) (Score:3, Informative)
600Mbit/s is not a huge thing to have.
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Re:Now THAT'S a tax write off :) (Score:2, Funny)
What?! It'd be cheaper to buy the damned movies at that price. Uh..I mean...post...letters...to my grandma.....
Re:Now THAT'S a tax write off :) (Score:3, Informative)
So, 600mb/sec sustained (so that the 95% is 600) would work out to about 148TB. Even with 30% for headers, protocol overhead, etc, you're still talking ~1
Re:Now THAT'S a tax write off :) (Score:2)
Not wishing to sound conceited but... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Not wishing to sound conceited but... (Score:4, Interesting)
The donated 600Mbit/s on the other hand, that is probably a connection that is guaranteed to work under a high load 24/7.
Re:Not wishing to sound conceited but... (Score:1)
They cabled the street with new fiber just for me, so I don't think many of my neighbors are using my line right now.
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Yeah, you say thats you are the only on in your street using that fibre.
But how many in your town? How many in your district? use that service?
The total international interconnectivity of japan combined couldnt sustain even thousand of those kind of connections anyway. And while internal routing might be less tight, but the end result (when broadly available) will be the same as in hong-kong: your fancy ultra speed "internet" is nothing more than a fast intranet with undersized internet connection.
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Re:Slashdotting cliche (Score:1)
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OSL? WTF? BBQ? OMG! (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:OSL? WTF? BBQ? OMG! (Score:2)
Re:OSL? WTF? BBQ? OMG! (Score:2)
Re:OSL? WTF? BBQ? OMG! (Score:2)
"That's Hogwarts business"
Personally, I think the topic poster made those acronyms up
Re:OSL? WTF? BBQ? OMG! (Score:1)
The Daily Show? (Score:2, Offtopic)
more evidence.. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:more evidence.. (Score:2)
Amazing how beautiful it is and how we have so much diversity at our fingertips.
Amazing how much technology, open source software, and community there is.
Amazing how much charity Oregonians are able to come up with for various causes every year.
Amazing how great comic books and shows like the s
What about distros? (Score:2)
I've provided some limited hosting to a new distro (which I dare not mention here) and the cost of dealing with several hundred ISO downloads a day is pretty expensive.
Suggestions?
Re:What about distros? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:What about distros? (Score:1)
TDS again? Well old ones anyway.
http://mirrors.tds.net/ [tds.net]
Re:Wooohooo - let use up that bandwidth (Score:1)
MBps, I Hope! (Score:1)
Time for a corrections... (Score:3, Interesting)
TDS are good people (Score:5, Informative)
Ontario Soccer League? (Score:2)
Nice! (Score:1)
What is OSU OSL? (Score:3, Informative)
OSU OSL is Oregon State University Open Source Labs.
This is a project that manages infrastructure (machines, bandwidth) for many open source projects.
Their list of projects [osuosl.org] include Debian, Drupal, Gentoo, Mozilla and others
So, it is really good news, since the longevity of these projects are better (not that they were in danger or anything).
Disclaimer: I contribute to Drupal.
hah! (Score:1)