[BioPython] versioning, distribution and webdav

[EMBL - Rune Linding]

On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 03:06:47AM -0600, Andrew Dalke wrote:
> I had a worrisome conversation with Roger Sayle today.  He's
> been downloading the latest EMBL release, which is some 7GB if
> I counted ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/embl/release/
> correctly.  They have a T1 but it's downloading at about 1.5MBytes
> per minute.  T1 is supposed to be 1.5MBits per second, so this
> is about 1/6 of the bandwidth.



 as far as i know ebi is on the cambridge oc3 155 mbit nonredundant line

and  embl-heidelberg.de is on a 34 mbit (e3) to DFN and from frankfurt we go on a dual oc12 622 mbit across the atlantic



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