Red Hat Beta iso

[Thomas M. Albright]

On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Steven W. Orr wrote:

> Go to mirrors.redhat.com and select a local mirror. Red Hat throttles 
> their server down deliberately. A local mirror will have no such 
> restriction. And BTW, I'm a big fan of lftp as my preferred ftp client. 
> One of the things is that it has a pget command which run simultaneous 
> transfers over different parts of the ISO image at the same time. If noone 
> else is using the bandwidth, it will speed things up.
> 
I tried that, too. Even using the mirrors that actually worked I can't
get any better than 25 KB/s, when I typically get well over 100.  
(Sometimes even over 300!) At the speeds I'm currently getting, it's a 4 
hour download per image!
image. 

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