In article <19pls2INNi56 at grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr>, Yvan Rahbe
<rahbe at jouy.inra.fr> wrote:
>> I would like to get MacPattern at the embl ftp site, and I have problem
> in getteing reasonable access time to this server (camparatively to any
> other server). I am using Fetch. Is there a reason for this ?
The simple reason is that the German networks and their connection to the
international Internet are not very effective, especially for generators of
huge amounts of traffic such as EMBL.
We are very actively investigating different approaches to improve this
unsatisfactory situation.
Rainer Fuchs
EMBL Data Library
Fuchs at EMBL-Heidelberg.DE
