Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (905 mails)

[Peter Poeml <poeml@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 07:00:26PM +0300, Andras Barna wrote:
> hi
> what happened with the redirector?

Does its job ;)

> if i'm wgetting
> "http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3/iso/cd/openSUSE-10.3-GM-GNOME-i386.iso";
> i'm redirected to: ftp.gts.lug.ro
> download speed: maximum (4mbit)

Very good!

> but if'm wgetting
> "http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.0/iso/cd/openSUSE-11.0-KDE4-LiveCD-i386.iso";
> i'm redirected to: cdn.novell.com (akamai?)
> download speed: ~100kbyte/s

Not so good... yes, Akamai. The results with it seem to vary. It works
much better from other locations, but also at other times. I got ~ 2MB/s
earlier today, but only 350 K right now.

> why?

I don't know.

> (yes, i'm from romania)
> PS: please dont answer "use torrent" or such ;)

Use a metalink client ;-)
It will use the fastest mirrors in parallel.

Peter
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