Curious RH7 download problem

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Author: Eden Li
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Subject: Curious RH7 download problem
No clue why it would work well for awhile then suddenly quit, but you
might try one ofthe mirrors that are availible, they're usually less
busy, faster, and a lot more reliable.
http://www.redhat.com/mirrors.html

Eden

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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