Re: Frequent download time outs
Hi,
I too face many times such problems on my dial up connection. Just
yesterday when I tried to download the rpm files of icewm, two of them got
downloaded properly but the icewm-common file was just timing out in
between. I tried it many times, but could not succeed. Finally a fellow
icewm listers has sent me that rpm file by mail.
Today I tried to download SDL latest version. The SDL binary rpm got
downloaded properly but the SDL-devel package was timing out. I wanted the
devel package for compiling some stuff I had downloaded from Freshmeat.
Is this problem of the Host site or ISP ???
Presently I am using SuSE 7 and will be shifting to Debian soon. May be
this week itself.
Regards
Rajesh
Carl Johnson saw fit to inform me that:
>jkelm@concentric.net (Jeff Kelm) writes:
>
>> I am having trouble getting reliable downloads using Debian 2.2. After
>> downloading 30-150KB the download usually stops and eventually times
>> out. I noticed this first when I tried using apt-get to download the
>> base system packages. During 'apt-get update' download of the package
>> lists, the system will time out. It took several attempts to finally
>> get the full lists. It took even longer to download the necessary
>> packages.
>
>I have the same problem, but some sites are much worse than others. I
>know it was happening with Debian 2.1, but I don't know about before
>that. You don't mention if you are using a modem, cable, or DSL, but
>I am using a modem. My suspicion is that it is due to timeouts at the
>host site, ISP, or somewhere in-between. Since modems are much
>slower, I suspect that modem users are much more likely to have this
>kind of problem.
>
>I used a unix login at my ISP to test some sites, and downloads
>directly to my ISP are completely error free. Downloads directly from
>my ISP are similarly error free, so see if you can come to any other
>conclusions. If anybody else has any other information *please* let
>me know.
>
>Some times are much better than others, so you may want to setup wget
>to automatically download at off-peak times. I use wget with options
>-t 10 -T 60 so it will keep trying with short timeouts.
>
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