Dave.Smith@st.com wrote:
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Possibly, or it might be due to the fact that I'm trying to connect over a 28.8k modem. Occasionally (1 time out of 10), I manage to get to the list of mirrors, but never get any further. If bandwidth and latency really are the issue (as I suspect), it's not exactly going to be helped by thousands of extra machines attempting to auto-update, and I doubt that SuSE want to spend lots more money on extra bandwidth.
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.
ditto on that last point. The only other comment I'll make is that I don't think bandwidth or latency are a problem. I get my downloads with my cable modem not too much slower than I can pull them off the CD (well okay a bit slower). I've been very happy with the download rates for the packages, although for some reason getting the list of packages takes an eternity...Curious. John