From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 16 15:41:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA08119 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 15:41:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gate.iterated.com (gate.iterated.com [206.30.188.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA07990 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 15:39:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from csagar@iterated.com) Received: from [198.242.115.100] by gate.iterated.com for id SAA22203; Fri Jan 16 18:39:39 1998 Message-ID: <34BFEFBB.E6C06284@iterated.com> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 18:39:39 -0500 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Download problems Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Chris Sagar Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Not to be a whiner, but . . . Downloading from ftp.freebsd.org runs at a blistering 0.7 to 1.0 Kbytes per second. I have dual T-1 access, so I am pretty sure it is not on my side of the Internet. Downloading from ftp5.freebsd.org does not support all files needed for a Kern. developer distribution. Downloading from ftp6 yields unresolved name Finally got decent download and kernal dev. support from ftp2, however the download aborted with page fault errors. Now to start all over again. I generally feel that if people are going to run ftp sites, they should carry all the distribution files and have decent bandwidth to support the downloads. I get very frustrated with sites that are unresponsive. There are too many OS's in the world to have potential users get PO'ed at the download cycle and give up. The best OS in the world isn't worth a damn if people can't get it downloaded in a decent amount of time. If you guys who read this are running one of the ftp sites, how about just doing a little clean up and help us poor folks who get in a jam and need to download and install the software under project and managerial time constraints. feel free to flame Chris Sagar csagar@iterated.com