and I thought I was the only one that found 26 hours to be bit much!!!

At 11:19 AM 9/24/96 -0400, Richard Sims wrote:
>In approaching downloading of the latest ADSM client code for
>AIX 3.2 I took a look at what is on the IBM site, which is:
>
>-rw-r--r--   1 221      204        63838 Sep 17 00:40 
>aix32.v2r1m5.IP20847.README
>-rw-r--r--   1 221      204         1318 Sep 17 00:39 
>aix32.v2r1m5.IP20847.README.ftp
>-rw-r--r--   1 221      204      49100800 Sep 18 01:42 
>aix32.v2r1m5.IP20847.smit
>
>I then had a look at the ftp.cac.psu.edu mirror site, which has:
>
>-r--r--r--   1 100      1027          405 Jun 17 21:22 .message
>-r--r--r--   1 100      1027         1318 Aug 30 19:34 
>aix32.v2r1m5.IP20847.README.ftp
>-r--r--r--   1 100      1027     36659200 Aug 30 12:29 
>aix32.v2r1m5.IP20847.smit
>
>Customers depending upon mirror sites seem to be missing something...
>over 12 MB.  This is why I don't trust mirror sites, and have been
>looking to IBM to improve the access to their authoritative site so
>that it doesn't take 26 hours to download a fix file like this.
>
>     Richard Sims, Boston University OIT
>
>