Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 21:34:35 -0600 From: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> To: Dave Walton <dwalton@acm.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slow Download Performance of ftp.freesoftware.com! Message-ID: <20010328213435.H44006@luke.immure.com> In-Reply-To: <3AC23B78.25710.18707EA@localhost>; from dwalton@acm.org on Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 07:28:56PM -0800 References: <3AC23B78.25710.18707EA@localhost>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Indeed, ftp2.freebsd.org is _significantly_ faster. I'm getting greater
than 160 KB/s throughput from it (vs. 2-3 KB/s from ftp.freebsd.org).
Bob
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 07:28:56PM -0800, Dave Walton wrote:
> Bob Willcox wrote:
> >
> > This may be old news and may only be effecting me for some
> > reason, but I get terrible download performance from
> > ftp.freesoftware.com.
>
> A.K.A. ftp.freebsd.org
>
> > For other sites, my rates peak at greater
> > than 200 KB/s, but here I'm luky if I can get 5 KB/s. The load
> > doesn't seem that high ("934 out of 5000 possible" right now).
> >
> > Anybody have an answer for or comments on this?
>
> Yeah, I noticed this a few months ago when I was introducing BSD
> to someone. The FTP install was taking hours longer than it
> should have, because the throughput was so stinking low. I did a
> traceroute to see what was happening, and discovered that the
> server appears to have been moved from San Francisco to New
> York. The new route includes half a dozen hops through
> lightning.net, which are typically anywhere from 100ms to 300ms
> per hop. It's horrible.
>
> I've been using ftp2.freebsd.org ever since.
>
> Dave
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Dave Walton dwalton@acm.org
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
--
Bob Willcox The reason we come up with new versions is not to
bob@vieo.com fix bugs. It's absolutely not.
Austin, TX -- Bill Gates
To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20010328213435.H44006>