On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 13:46, Michael Knee wrote:
> Are RedHat's servers always this swamped???
> 
> It's been more than a week since RH8.0 was released.  I made 5 or 6 attempts
> to download, so far the farthest I got was 32MB of the first file before the
> connection dropped, the best speed was 3.8 kB/s.  This over a Cox cable
> modem connection that tests at 187 kB/s.
> 
> Is it just a matter of waiting till the release 8.0 rush is over, or is it
> always like this?
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Redhat's servers are notoriously slow - obviously they have throttled
their system back for anonymous logins and give priority to approved
logins / rsync to mirrors etc.

The mirrors however are distributing more than just redhat so to assume
that RH 8 is the sole cause for this is probably a bit flattering to RH
but not entirely true.

I was able to get very nice bandwidth from ftp://redhat.newaol.com and
downloaded the 5 disc's in less than 40 minutes per disc. They all
verified MD5SUM perfectly. I forgot the xfer speed but it seems to me
that it was much faster than 187KBps (Sprint BBd).

The problem that I had was burning them to CD - I thought that there was
a problem with my setup on RH 7.3 because every burn failed. Xferred the
files to my Mac (5 discs were 3.2G so it took a bit) and burning failed
there too.

Turned out that my discs graded poorly and I stole 3 disc's from my
daughter and they burned perfectly (the ones that went to George Gambill
and apparently will find their way to Hans).

Have to be more careful what I buy I guess (I think I bought these at
Price Club - grade at B- according to cdrecord) - perhaps I should buy
some of the cheapo's at Fry's     ;-)

Craig