Up2date

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Fr, den 23.01.2004 schrieb Chadley Wilson um 13:15:
> On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 14:08, Chadley Wilson wrote:
> > I have tried lots of mirrors and it just hangs.
> > Ok first it says its Redhat update agent is building a list of pakages
> > it the says fetching packages. 
> > But it stops there and nothing hapens not even after an hour and a half.
> > What could the problem be. 
> > I have treid mirrors in USA west, east south africa [my current
> > location] and [when you push the send key on your keyboard by mistake
> you have to finish the mail with half greyed]
> any way lots the bottom line is when I downloaded open office my
> connection was sitting solidly at 32kb/s but when I run up2date the
> connection is only giving 6k/s.
> I am using gkrellm to monitor.
> I have plenty cpu time and mem free and the eth0 just sits virtually
> dormant, almost as if nothing was happening
> 
> mmm any ideas

Using wget to download from http sources works perfectly? So you can
eliminate your firewall as a cause for the low rates?

What did you ment with "I have set up authentication" in your original
posting?

Alexander


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