How to speed up my internet connection

[Waldher, Travis R]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larrys Account [mailto:larry.cotton at ntlworld.com] 
> Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 11:03 AM
> To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com
> Subject: How to speed up my internet connection
> 
> Hi
> 
> This is a little off topic, but I'm hoping someone might be 
> able to tell me where I can find the information.
> 
> I recently made an enquiry about setting up a printer on red 
> hat 8 and e#was informed it would be advisable to upgrade to 
> a later version, since redhat 8 had been deprecated. I 
> decided to upgrade to fedora core 2 and started downloading the disks.
> 
> I was a bit shocked to discover each disk (about 640M) is 
> taking about 60 hours to download. By my calculations a 56k 
> link should take about 26 or 27 hours. I'm supposed to have a 
> 300k link - which should (again by my
> calculations) take about 5 hours.
> 
> I guess something is a bit wrong with my connection and I was 
> wondering if anyone knew where I could go to get information 
> about why it is so slow ? 
> I'm running redhat 8 and have set up internet sharing on a 
> small Man, so I guess this set up is causing it to go so slowly.
> 
> Or are my estimates of expected download times simply way out ?
> 
> Cheers
> Larry

If you are a dSL customer, which out, that 300k may be a theoritical
max, most companies advertise "up to" speeds.

I would first try downloading from a mirror site though.  The one your
going to might be having problems or be VERY busy.