Re: [tlug] Internet Speed Question??

[Gavin Rollins <gavin-39@example.com>]

To Josh and all,
Thanks for your replys. with help from some friends on the irc chat room this, 
I was given this site which had good dl speed compaired to RH
ftp.fi.muni.cz
let me know what happens Josh!

Gavin


On Tuesday 22 October 2002 05:48 am, Josh Glover wrote:
> Quoth Gavin Rollins (Tue 2002-10-22 12:30:46AM +0900):
> > I'm trying to download RH 8.0 from redhat.com running gftp. My connection
> > is B-Flets fiber optic. My router is a "PCI BRL-04ex Road Lanner capable
> > of upto 30Mbps.... I tried downloading via my win box and I had a dl
> > speed of 53.4 KB/s what gives here or am I missing someting??
>
> I would imagine that the latency is on the Internet. The fact that you are
> downloading from redhat.com (a pretty busy site) is another reason to
> suspect that the latency is not on your end.
>
> You do know that the slowest link between you and the download site will
> govern the speed of the download, right?
>
> > and if you know a closer site to download RH, please let me know.
>
> When in Japan, I got good speeds from ftp.kddlabs.co.jp. You could try
> looking at the Red Hat Mirror Sites page:
>
> http://www.redhat.com/download/mirror.html

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