Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 21:34:35 -0600 From: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> To: Dave Walton <dwalton@acm.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slow Download Performance of ftp.freesoftware.com! Message-ID: <20010328213435.H44006@luke.immure.com> In-Reply-To: <3AC23B78.25710.18707EA@localhost>; from dwalton@acm.org on Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 07:28:56PM -0800 References: <3AC23B78.25710.18707EA@localhost>
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Indeed, ftp2.freebsd.org is _significantly_ faster. I'm getting greater than 160 KB/s throughput from it (vs. 2-3 KB/s from ftp.freebsd.org). Bob On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 07:28:56PM -0800, Dave Walton wrote: > Bob Willcox wrote: > > > > This may be old news and may only be effecting me for some > > reason, but I get terrible download performance from > > ftp.freesoftware.com. > > A.K.A. ftp.freebsd.org > > > For other sites, my rates peak at greater > > than 200 KB/s, but here I'm luky if I can get 5 KB/s. The load > > doesn't seem that high ("934 out of 5000 possible" right now). > > > > Anybody have an answer for or comments on this? > > Yeah, I noticed this a few months ago when I was introducing BSD > to someone. The FTP install was taking hours longer than it > should have, because the throughput was so stinking low. I did a > traceroute to see what was happening, and discovered that the > server appears to have been moved from San Francisco to New > York. The new route includes half a dozen hops through > lightning.net, which are typically anywhere from 100ms to 300ms > per hop. It's horrible. > > I've been using ftp2.freebsd.org ever since. > > Dave > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dave Walton dwalton@acm.org > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Bob Willcox The reason we come up with new versions is not to bob@vieo.com fix bugs. It's absolutely not. Austin, TX -- Bill Gates To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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