Roelf I really appreciate the energy you bring here and we all love you in some way. However, it's time to ring your Bluehost account manager for violating the contract promising "unlimited" throughput. Empirical examples below show the real difference: I get < 1.5 Megabit/second when talking in SI units from your server. That's like a factor 65 less than a 100 Mbit Netport. The sole consolation might be that Bluehosts own mirror is even slower than yours. And third example is a mirror with good hardware and a good network (in this case taxpayers money, I know the organization behind). Easier to understand by the "ETA" (acronym for estimated time to accomplish, or so), your 700 Megabyte ISO would have come to me in 65 minutes, while the high-performance mirror would have served it to me in under 2 Minutes, which is a factor 30. Conclusion: Their monthly running cost for the infrastructure is probably more than 30 times the price of what you spend, so you are the winner in price/performance! Kind regards, Florian --20:42:48-- http://mirror.roelf.org/centos/5.6/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.6-x86_64-LiveCD.iso (try: 2) => `CentOS-5.6-x86_64-LiveCD.iso' Connecting to mirror.roelf.org|69.195.90.115|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 206 Partial Content Length: 733,669,376 (700M), 704,667,687 (672M) remaining [application/octet-stream] 10% [++++======> ] 73,860,362 160.45K/s ETA 59:28 --21:00:34-- http://mirrors.bluehost.com/centos/5.6/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.6-x86_64-LiveCD.iso => `CentOS-5.6-x86_64-LiveCD.iso.3' Resolving mirrors.bluehost.com... 67.20.126.75 Connecting to mirrors.bluehost.com|67.20.126.75|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 733,669,376 (700M) [application/octet-stream] 10% [===========> ] 79,656,216 106.99K/s ETA 1:18:43 --21:10:39-- http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/centos/5.6/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.6-x86_64-LiveCD.iso => `CentOS-5.6-x86_64-LiveCD.iso.2' Resolving mirror.switch.ch... 130.59.10.36 Connecting to mirror.switch.ch|130.59.10.36|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 733,669,376 (700M) [application/octet-stream] 10% [===========> ] 78,280,352 8.95M/s ETA 01:28 > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: centos-mirror-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-mirror- > bounces at centos.org] Im Auftrag von Roelf Wichertjes > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 7. April 2011 20:09 > An: Mailing list for CentOS mirrors. > Betreff: Re: [CentOS-mirror] the world is still turning and so do > CentOS mirrors in a way > > @sceptics: > > In my case the "unlimited" in "unlimited bandwith" is real, > My friend updated all 300 pc's under his command to 5.5. > He used the boot.iso for every one, > meaning that all pc's seperatly downloaded the installation. > It caused more then 3TB of bandwith usage! > And he even gave me a thx for the high download speed! > > > -------------------- > Roelf Software > software.roelf.org > www.roelf.org > -------------------- > > Op 7 apr. 2011 om 19:30 heeft <florian at gruendler.net> het volgende > geschreven: > > > OMG, this is notorious! >