3.0 ISO download from YDL.net/enhanced not working

[Rick Thomas]

I've been trying unsuccessfully to download the "new" YDLv3.0 ISOs from
the "YDL.net/enhanced" website.

The best transfer rate I can get is 70kbytes/sec (1 or 2 hours to
download a 600 MB ISO file), and it usually ends in a fatal
communications error (dropped connection or some such).  Even when
(after a couple of hours waiting) it finally "succeeds", the MD5
checksum is wrong.  I'm connecting to the Internet via the University's
broadband connection, so the slowdown isn't on my end.

I was willing to cut YDL some slack during the startup period, but it's
been a couple of weeks.  By now, it seems to me, for $90 the download
really should "just work".

What's going on?

Rick 






Gavin Hemphill wrote:
> 
> Well it would appear that the Yellowdog FTP server is suffering some
> problems with its ethernet interface :-)  That's the only explanation I
> can find since I've used wget to download from both the http server and
> the ftp server.  The wget from the http server works fine and as far as
> I can tell they are hosted on different machines.  I vaguely remember
> someone boasting that the ftp server was an old mac, so it may be the
> mace ethernet problem all over again.
> 
> By the way if you read the README files you would have found the "fix"
> long before you tried so many times.
>         G++
> 
> Jim Parks wrote:
> > Try http://iso.ydl.net
> >
> > It sucks what's going on with the FTP, and I don't understand why they can't
> > fix it.
> >
> > I share your frustration.  For $90, I want it to work.  If I want a hobby,
> > I'll write my own f***ing distros.
> >
> > JP
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <thevizi@mac.com>
> > To: <yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
> > Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2003 10:13 PM
> > Subject: 3.0 ISO Ripoff
> >
> >
> >
> >>I am up to the 8th FTP download of the ISOs.  FTP downloads without a
> >>glitch but the MD5 never matches and the install always causes a Kernel
> >>panic. Considering the "generous" 20kbs bandwidth given to us for our
> >>measly $90 membership it takes 5-6 hours per image to download. This is
> >>so frustrating.
> >>
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