Two ways:

1) Use a mirror, Red Hat keeps their site SLOW to unpaid users.
2) Use wget instead of ncftp, read the man page. Some nice features as
compared to an ftp type client. 

On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 07:48, Michael Havens wrote:
> If I don't sit there durring large file downloads it times-out due to 
> inactivity. How do I change it so that it doesn't time-out.
> 
> Konsole says:
> 
> XFree86-tools-4.1.0-25.i386.rpm:   ETA:   8:10  451.46/511.39 kB  125.33 B/s 
> =Remote read timed out.
> XFree86-tools-4.1.0-25.i386.rpm:                451.46/511.39 kB  125.33 B/s
> Could not read reply from control connection -- timed out.
> Passive mode refused.
> get *.rpm: passive mode failed.
> ncftp> updates.redhat.com
> 
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