3.0 ISO Ripoff

[Jim Parks]

Dan -- Fair enough... the Internet is a bunch of routers and hops.  But
c'mon, there are way too many of us who have had problems with the FTP
server.  My personal experience was 30 hours of downloading via FTP only to
have every single ISO corrupt.  Downloading via HTTP worked perfectly.

That really doesn't sound like a problem of bits being dropped along the way
by all the routers and hops between me and you.  That sounds like your FTP
server is wucked up.

But, all that being said, I still want to support YDL and its future
development.  I also think that an important part of that future is to have
an established base of happy customers.... and you guys are letting us down
a little bit right now on what, from the outside, look like things that you
really ought to be able to fix rather quickly.

I'm not talking about non-existent drivers for Airport Extreme right now...
right now, I'm talking about simple bulls**t like getting the GD ftp server
to work and not making us go through the whole download process only to be
disappointed by random errors.

JP


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Burcaw" <dburcaw@terrasoftsolutions.com>
To: <yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2003 10:41 PM
Subject: Re: 3.0 ISO Ripoff


>
> With all due respect, we're doing everything we can. Of course there are
> going to be some wrinkles. So far I haven't heard of any problem from
> folks using the http server.  Also, we've increased out bandwidth
> significantly.
>
> The fact is, despite everything we do and how much bandwidth we
> continue to allocate (our bandwidth has been increased significantly),
> people will continue to have problems or slow connections.  Not all
> problems are due to the circumstances of our servers or bandwidth.
> The internet is a web of routers and hops.  Slowness and bad bits
> can't exclusively be the fault of the destination.
>
> In any event, if folks are still having problems, drop me an email. We'll
> drop ship you CD-Rs.  The intent isn't to screw people for money and only
> giving them 20kbs as the previous poster accused.
>
> -Dan
>
> > 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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