Custom ISOs

[Tim Judd]

On 9/9/09, Manolis Kiagias <sonicy at otenet.gr> wrote:
> Al Plant wrote:
>> Manolis Kiagias wrote:
>>> Tim Judd wrote:
>>>> I'm not sure if this is normal or not, but I'm getting <5.0KB/sec for
>>>> two separate downloads each download speed for both the XFCE and Gnome
>>>> DVD ISOs.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Weird...
>>>> I am aware that the site is sitting on wikidot.com, and not on
>>>> dev-urandom.com anymore, I was wondering if there's a better place I
>>>> can grab them from.  I have someone interested in BSD, and was trying
>>>> to download all options and let him pick.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Not really. Only the web pages are on wikidot, the files are still
>>> hosted in dev-urandom.com
>>>
>>>> With this download, it'll take <ME> a day or more to download it, then
>>>> the time to meet up with this guy.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Any light shed on the slow downloads?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Don't know, but if it is not resolved I'll ping Glen Barber who owns
>>> this space.
>>> I can't test the speed right now myself but will do later and report
>>> back.
>>>
>>> I do have some alternate space as well, so if the worse comes to the
>>> worst, I could upload one of the ISOs there. It is currently mostly full
>>> but I believe I can trash some things.
>>>
>>>> Thanks again, Manolis for ALL your hard work, it is very much
>>>> appreciated.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks Tim, I thoroughly enjoyed creating this stuff.
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>> ##########
>>
>> Aloha,
>>
>> Download was fine from here in Hawaii when I have used it in the past.
>>
>> I have a 1.5 DSL circuit down. Hawaii is not the fastest place on the
>> planet usually. I would check Tim's provider side. I know of several
>> mainland friends who have slow cable TV lines.
>>
>> Hope you find the issue and can get it resolved.
>>
>
> And I can confirm that it maxes out my connection here.



Apparently was just a temp thing -- it looks like it had finished in
~40 minutes, but I started the download, wrote the mail, and then went
to bed.  Apparently it normalized.

Sorry for the disruption.

--TJ