Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 09:01:33 -0600 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <zen@buddhist.com> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Query / Laptop Install Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990317090133.008f4a20@mail.bfm.org> In-Reply-To: <199903160136.UAA01899@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> References: <3.0.6.32.19990315165947.008f51a0@mail.bfm.org>
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At 20:36 15-03-1999 -0500, Crist J. Clark wrote: >Which distribution was the screen stuck on when you found it in the >morning? Oh, gosh, I was still half asleep... But I believe it was downloading the source code for something. I am not too worried about it at this time. I certainly have everything I need right now. Whenever I realize something is missing, that will be the time to download and install it. One thing that helped me was that this time I did not get it from ftp.freebsd.org - that is a very busy server, and my downloads were coming at the rate of about 1 KB/sec. Instead, I chose ftp.cz.freebsd.org - the mirror in Czech Republic. That may not not seem to make sense at first since it is across the Big Pond from the US. But it was a weekend night, and due to the 6 hour time zone difference I figured few if any local downloads would be going on at the time. Secondly, Czech Republic is a fairly small country (about 10 million people), so even during the day there would be fewer downloads than say from a German site. Last but not least, I was raised in the former Czechoslovakia (in what is now Slovakia, but there is no ftp.sk.freebsd.org), so it was almost like going home on a vacation. :-) Well, it was downloading at 3.4 - 3.7 KB/sec, a considerable improvement. Now, please don't everybody go and download from there, but it may be a good idea to pick a small country in that part of the world where everyone is sound asleep while you are downloading. BTW, here is an idea for developers of the install software: ftp comes with certain overhead (send request, wait for a reply...) which keeps the line idle for a percentage of time. If the install software allowed you to choose from two different ftp sites that contain the same distribution files, it could alternate requests from both. That would lower the load on both ftp sites, and increase the download speed. It would not double the speed, but it would increase it. I mean, request file .aa from site 1, file .ab from site 2 in two separate tasks. Whenever you receive and process a file, request whichever file is needed next from whichever ftp site you just finished receiving a file from. Adam --- Want to design your own web counter? Get GCL 2.10 from http://www.whizkidtech.net/gcl/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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