3.0 ISO download from YDL.net/enhanced not working

[c asunto]

I had to deal with the slow downloads too, on a cable modem. I started at 
10:30 pm and started downlaoding the 3 iso's. According to download manager, 
the last one did not finish until 2:00 pm. Luckily I went to bed and to 
work, so I didn't wait for it.

I too think for $90 you would pull some quick download time.




----Original Message Follows----
From: Rick Thomas <Rick.Thomas@pobox.com>
Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Subject: Re: 3.0 ISO download from YDL.net/enhanced not working
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 16:41:54 -0400

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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