Curious RH7 download problem

Ed Cernek cernek@home.com
Thu, 12 Oct 2000 19:25:34 -0700


Hello again PLUGgers.

Thanks for all of the responses. I certainly learned a lot about various
ways to skin this cat. I was finally able to download all 5 iso's and
burn 'em. In the end I was able to get them from ftp.proxad.net.

Thanks again.

Ed Cernek wrote:
> 
> Hello PLUGgers
> 
> I tried all day yesterday (Sunday) to ftp the RH7 iso's from RedHat. I
> think I tried about four times from a combination of W98 and RH6.2
> boxes, using several different ftp programs. In all cases I used
> ftp.redhat.com and cox@home. In all cases the outcome was the same: it
> would smoke along at about 120kbps until I had transfered about
> 400Mb-450Mb. Then it would gradually slow down until I had about
> 500Mb-550Mb whereupon it would become unusably slow, essentially zero. I
> never was successful. Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks, Ed.
> 
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