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From: rb9a@watt.acc.Virginia.EDU (Raul Baragiola)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Downloading
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Date: 7 Nov 90 02:50:27 GMT
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I normally get speeds around 7 kb/sec when downloading from 
anonymous ftp sites in the US.  However, the last half-dozen 
times I tried to access simtel the connection was closed with
the message "too many anonymous ftp, try later" or something
of the sort.

I tried to get files from the large library at chyde.uwasa.fi
Here I can get in, but the connection is terribly slow.  I managed
to get a file at 0.030 kB/s (Thats 30 bytes per second !!!), one
somewhat (not much) faster than this but, in most cases, the
remote system hang the connection.

Can the audience recommend other large pools of programs with easier
and faster access?

Thank you,


Raul A. Baragiola                               \Internet: raul@virginia.edu
Dept. Nuclear Engnr. and Engnr. Physics          \Phone: (804)-982-2907
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22901 \ Fax: (804)-924-6270