Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 19:28:56 -0800 From: "Dave Walton" <dwalton@acm.org> To: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slow Download Performance of ftp.freesoftware.com! Message-ID: <3AC23B78.25710.18707EA@localhost>
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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
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