Re: [SLE] An alternative to software.opensuse.org?

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.

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Regards,

Graham Smith

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