From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 28 19:41:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9765D37B71D for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 19:41:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dscheidt@tumbolia.com) Received: from shell-3.enteract.com (dscheidt@shell-3.enteract.com [207.229.143.42]) by mail.enteract.com (8.11.1/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2T3fcv69125; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 21:41:38 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dscheidt@tumbolia.com) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 21:41:38 -0600 (CST) From: David Scheidt X-Sender: dscheidt@shell-3.enteract.com To: Dave Walton Cc: Bob Willcox , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slow Download Performance of ftp.freesoftware.com! In-Reply-To: <3AC23B78.25710.18707EA@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Dave Walton wrote: : :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. lightning.net seem to have poor peering. My connections to ghem are through level3.net and are quite fast. : David -- dscheidt@tumbolia.com Bipedalism is only a fad. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message