3.0 ISO download from YDL.net/enhanced not working

[Felix Jodoin]

Get it off http or buy the box set.
-Proteus
On Tuesday, April 8, 2003, at 03:41  PM, Rick Thomas wrote:

> 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
>
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>
> 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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