Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 18:30:34 -0400 From: Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU> To: "Harris Kauffman" <hpk104@hotmail.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISO download speed Message-ID: <200005102230.SAA82160@larryboy.graphics.cornell.edu> In-Reply-To: Message from "Harris Kauffman" <hpk104@hotmail.com> of "Wed, 10 May 2000 18:20:11 EDT." <20000510222011.7807.qmail@hotmail.com>
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>I know where to find the ISO images, but I wanted to get people's >opinions on which download site would offer the best speed. I am on a >cable-modem if that affects your recommendations :-) It doesn't really matter what's on your end. My connections are a T3 and the vBNS and ISO downloads are slow for me, too! What matters is network bottlenecks and server load. The things to do are a traceroute to each server which will show you which is "closer" topologically speaking, and may give some clues to network capacity en-route, and then try downloading something smaller than the ISO file from each server and check your ftp thoughput speed. I found one server to be significantly faster than the others to where I am when I did this. Which one it was doesn't matter because the answer will be different for you. -Mitch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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