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OSL Gets Bandwidth Donation from TDS

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the take-advantage-while-oss-is-still-a-buzzword dept.

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."

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  1. Not wishing to sound conceited but... by McFadden · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I have 1 Gigabit just for a single laptop in my apartment (in Japan). Mind you, not that I ever really get to use it. My PC can't manage more than about 5% utilization before it starts thrashing its disk and grinding to a halt. P2P takes on a whole new dimension when you can download an entire divx'd DVD in 5 minutes.

  2. OSL? WTF? BBQ? OMG! by Zephiris · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Possibly off-topic, but so many headlines recently use acronyms for things which are possibly unfamiliar, and don't provide a link on the Acronym to the homepage or an entry about whatever-it-is. Some of the stories are starting to look like the old joke, "You got a you-know-what from you-know-who, and you're supposed to take it to you-know-where by you-know when. Wink Wink. Nudge Nudge."

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    "A Goddess rarely smiles for she is forced by others to be an island unto herself." - Zephiris
  3. Re:What about distros? by poopdeville · · Score: 2, Insightful

    BitTorrent, and volunteers. If you go this route, don't get a super fat pipe. Get something comprable to what your volunteers are using, or you'll end up serving most of the content yourself.

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    After all, I am strangely colored.