I personally use wget with the list of links and just let it run
continuously until it finishes. I pulled down all 5 CDs in a matter of
hours on the Cox network from freshrpms.net
:)
Brian
On 9 Oct 2002, Craig White wrote:
> 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?
> -----
> 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
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