From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 28 19:29:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from modgud.nordicrecords.com (h21-168-107.nordicdms.com [207.21.168.107]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B25DC37B724 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 19:29:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwalton@acm.org) Received: (qmail 18288 invoked by alias); 29 Mar 2001 03:29:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 18274 invoked from network); 29 Mar 2001 03:29:28 -0000 Received: from thinkpad770z.audioondemand.net (HELO thinkpad770z) (207.21.168.217) by mail.nordicrecords.com with SMTP; 29 Mar 2001 03:29:28 -0000 From: "Dave Walton" To: Bob Willcox , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 19:28:56 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Slow Download Performance of ftp.freesoftware.com! Reply-To: dwalton@acm.org Message-ID: <3AC23B78.25710.18707EA@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Walton dwalton@acm.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message