On Friday 06 October 2006 15:12, Basil Chupin wrote:
Even though I am on broadband, every time KDE rpms get upgraded I end up with having downloads done at as low as 1Bps - yes *1* byte/sec, or simply hanging/timing out. And when this is the throughput for a RPM as small as ~45MB then the whole upgrading exercise becomes a damn farce.
One would think that a site like software.opensuse.org would have sufficient bandwidth to handle all connections efficiently and expeditiously seeing as who owns it, but.....
Hi Basil, I'm also using TPG as my ISP, just changed over to ADSL2+. I have noticed that the bandwidth out of Australia seems to be a problem with TPG, when I was on Westnet I seemed to have much better throughput. Anyway to the problem at hand. There appears to be no mirrors in Australia for the software.opensuse.org repositories. IInet and Pacific Internet only hold the original packages. At a guess I think there are some mirrors tied to software.opensuse.org that are overstressed also there appears only to be a few servers mirroring this site. I wish one of the ISP's here would do the mirroring. I have been using ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/opensuse/repositories/ and getting much better throughput. -- Regards, Graham Smith