Re: Quit your bitching

[Jarod Wilson <jcw wilsonet com>]

On Tuesday, Apr 1, 2003, at 10:00 US/Pacific, 
shrike-list-request redhat com wrote:

> Subject: Re: Quit your bitching
> On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 02:34, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > Please, quit your bitching about RHN and your priority access.  I've 
> > been
> > listening to people whine about it on 3 different mailing lists, and 
> > a few
> > different IRC channels.  I've been patient, and let my ISOs continue 
> > to
> > download, and guess what, they finished up already.  I ended up w/ 3
> > concurrent connections to RHN, each doing about 25KB/s.  Now it's 
> > still damn
> > close to March 31 where I'm from, and to have the isos a full 6 days 
> > before
> > public release is _well_ worth a $60 RHN account.
> >
> > SO, just because you didn't get a full 1M/s transfer rate, at 09:05 
> > EST this
> > morning, and had to "suffer" through a slowdown, don't go bitching 
> > about it
> > to anybody that will listen (and even to those that won't).
> >
> > lordy I hate release time... brings out the worst in everybody.
>
> Thank you.  My thoughts EXACTLY.

Well, I think some people have a legitimate gripe when they are told 
they will have access, and then can't even get in. I know I expected 
things to be slow, so I was happy to find an alternative (BitTorrent). 
Red Hat themselves said that demand was higher than expected, and it 
prevented some people from getting any access at all. Personally, I 
wasn't bitching; I offered an alternative. :) (Not to say that anyone 
was claiming I was bitching).

That said, I also downloaded all 3 images simultaneously around 3am 
last night direct from RHN, and pulled 80k/s on each one, so I'm 
assuming that additional bandwidth has been added to the mix, or enough 
of the initial wave has passed. I also left my BitTorrent client 
running for an extra 12 hours, and managed to push out 870MB myself...
--
Jarod Wilson, RHCE
<jcw wilsonet com>
"A wise man once said nothing at all."