John Scott wrote:
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
I suspect that this thread (or at least the above messages) is about YOU in SuSE 8.2. Right, wrong? (I haven't read the earlier messages). If wrong, I am not trying to hi-jack the thread. If you are talking about YOU then I have to say that YOU in 8.2 is as useful as tits on a bull. Three times now in the last 17 hours I have tried to update my installation and every time YOU gets to download the 2nd or 3rd patch - after grinding away for some time - the whole sheebang just terminates and vanishes off my screen! No explanation of why it terminated, not a damn sausage. Considering the stuffed YOU which was in v8.1 one would think that after all the months between 8.1 and 8.2 the problems in YOU would have been fixed. But no. I am not going to waste any more (on-line) time with YOU but going to install fou4s which has worked flawlessly for me after I installed it on 8.1 months ago. Download and install one small RPM, get on-line, issue 2 simple instructions on the command line and the patch(es) are downloaded and installed. -- Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. Pablo Picasso