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Date:      Thu, 14 Nov 1996 21:05:12 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Dhiraj Soni <dsoni@empros.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Freebsd
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.961114210419.28188L-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9611131618.B73883-0100000@ndakota.empros.com>

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On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Dhiraj Soni wrote:

>    I am trying to install Freebsd-2.1.5  by ftp connection . I am hooked to 
> a T1 line But the transfer rate is too low about 0.6 kbytes/sec. I am having 
> hard time installing it.
> 
>   What may be the problem and how can I make it fater?

1.  Make sure you are configuring the ethernet card with the proper IRQ.
2.  Try at a different time.  ftp.cdrom.com/ftp.freebsd.org is a big
machine with lots of users, so it does get slow over the day.  Try one of
the mirror sites.

> I have tried different sites for the installation and they are all slow,
> Is it some hardware problem?

How do other computers fare on your network?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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