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To: Nicky MADDISON <nicky.maddison@gmail.com>
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Nicky MADDISON <nicky.maddison@gmail.com> writes:

> Just to let you know that I am trig to download Freebsd since
> yesterday evening and it is not working.
>
> Yesterday, the speed was very slow and today the web site is asking
> for authentication when clicking on the ISO download.

It would probably help troubleshooting your problem if you told us
which mirror you were trying to download from.  But do try again,
and if one mirror seems unacceptably slow, try another one. 

There are quite a few to choose from, see eg
http://www.at.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html

-- 
Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team
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