Am Fr, den 23.01.2004 schrieb Chadley Wilson um 13:15: > On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 14:08, Chadley Wilson wrote: > > I have tried lots of mirrors and it just hangs. > > Ok first it says its Redhat update agent is building a list of pakages > > it the says fetching packages. > > But it stops there and nothing hapens not even after an hour and a half. > > What could the problem be. > > I have treid mirrors in USA west, east south africa [my current > > location] and [when you push the send key on your keyboard by mistake > you have to finish the mail with half greyed] > any way lots the bottom line is when I downloaded open office my > connection was sitting solidly at 32kb/s but when I run up2date the > connection is only giving 6k/s. > I am using gkrellm to monitor. > I have plenty cpu time and mem free and the eth0 just sits virtually > dormant, almost as if nothing was happening > > mmm any ideas Using wget to download from http sources works perfectly? So you can eliminate your firewall as a cause for the low rates? What did you ment with "I have set up authentication" in your original posting? Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany PGP key valid: made 13.07.1999 PGP fingerprint: 2307 88FD 2D41 038E 7416 14CD E197 6E88 ED69 5653
