Re: zoot-i386.iso near Australia

["Allen Bolderoff" <allen gist net au>]

If you go to the rsync web pages, it explains the process that rsync takes
to do a download.

it is safer and quicker over all.

> BUT GOD! Is it ever slow to get going.
> I have already downloaded about 270Mb of the iso
> It takes 5 minutes for rsync to (verify?) for every percentage of download
I
> have. During this time there's almost no ppp activity.
> I takes about 30 minutes before it reaches the end of what I already have,
> THEN starts ppp activity to get the rest.
> If the line drops at my ISP, and I re-bring up the link, I see no further
> activity at all until I re-start rsync.
> Not ideal for me I guess. Unless someone can explain why it's so slow I
may
> try wget yet.
>
> Cheers
>
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