[MPlayer-cygwin] call for bandwith support.

[Felix Buenemann]

On Wednesday 07 January 2004 18:35, Joey Parrish wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 06:16:38PM +0100, . csant . wrote:
> > Dear friends,
> >
> > as some of you might know, i am distributing a win32 installer of the
> > mplayer. it seems to enjoy some success: december 2003 alone saw 2588
> > downloads.
> >
> > but there is bandwidth restrictions on my server - and i am badly
> > breaking them. at the moment i cannot migrate to another server due to
> > financial problems.
>
> I have similar issues with my packages.  I have a 20 GB bandwidth limit,
> and I have used 9.8 on packages alone last month.  I also host and
> maintain a number of other sites from that same account, and this is
> pushing me nearly to my limit.
>
> I am about to setup mirrors at a couple of university servers in the US.
> In fact, my next release will be delayed until the mirror is ready,
> because I fear much more bandwidth consumed when a primitive GUI
> interface is added to my version.  In any case, I would be more than
> willing to share this space with other MPlayer packagers.
>
> I would have one mirror at University of North Texas (www.unt.edu)
> and _maybe_ one mirror at Texas A&M. (www.tamu.edu)  At the moment,
> these are the only places at which I have contacts.
>
> --Joey

How about mirroring all the stuff via the main mplayer mirrors. They have 
plenty of traffic available. Should I ask arpi about it?

-- 
Best Regards,
        Atmos
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