From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 10 15:30:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from larryboy.graphics.cornell.edu (larryboy.graphics.cornell.edu [128.84.247.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02D3437BA00 for ; Wed, 10 May 2000 15:30:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mkc@larryboy.graphics.cornell.edu) Received: from larryboy.graphics.cornell.edu (mkc@localhost) by larryboy.graphics.cornell.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA82160; Wed, 10 May 2000 18:30:34 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mkc@larryboy.graphics.cornell.edu) Message-Id: <200005102230.SAA82160@larryboy.graphics.cornell.edu> To: "Harris Kauffman" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISO download speed In-Reply-To: Message from "Harris Kauffman" of "Wed, 10 May 2000 18:20:11 EDT." <20000510222011.7807.qmail@hotmail.com> Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 18:30:34 -0400 From: Mitch Collinsworth Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >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