3.0 ISO download from YDL.net/enhanced not working

[Felix Jodoin]

! a cable modem slow? I live in canada/winnipeg and my cable modem goes  
at 136k per second. www.shaw.ca

-Proteus
On Tuesday, April 8, 2003, at 05:01  PM, c asunto wrote:

> 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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