Path: utzoo!utgpu!tmsoft!dptcdc!dpmizar!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!ncar!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!ucsd!orion.cf.uci.edu!paris.ics.uci.edu!glacier.ics.uci.edu!tittle From: tittle@glacier.ics.uci.edu (Cindy Tittle) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: SIMTEL20 FTP performance Keywords: simtel20,ftp Message-ID: <1145@paris.ics.uci.edu> Date: 9 Dec 88 22:16:28 GMT References: <10674@s.ms.uky.edu> Sender: news@paris.ics.uci.edu Reply-To: Cindy Tittle Organization: University of California at Irvine: ICS Dept. Lines: 34 In article <10674@s.ms.uky.edu> simon@ms.uky.edu (Simon Gales) writes: *In article W8SDZ@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL (Keith Petersen) writes: *> [...] *> Some users have experienced the same problem. Help has arrived! New *> network software was installed a few days ago which has resulted in an *> impressive improvement in performance. If you've given up on using *> FTP to get files from SIMTEL20 try again. If you get "connection *> refused" keep trying. That just means all the net ports are busy. *> * *I tried using simtel20 today (Wednesday December 7, 1988) and encountered *the same problems as usual. Simtel20 responded sluggishly, and died in the *middle of the transfer (less than 60k made it thru). When I break ftp on *my end, I get the familiar 'remote server has closed connection' message. * *Why don't I get the message when the connection is closed? Why is it *closed at all? * *Is the new network software in place yet? Hmmm....I've been using simtel extensively over the last couple of days, and it is *still* sluggish, but is freezing less often. (Earlier, every other transfer would die in mid-transfer, lately its been about one out of 10). Simtel has a pretty short idle tolerance, it seems to be about 2 minutes idle gets you kicked off. I dunno; that makes sense to me -- let others get on if you are not doing anything... --Cindy -- So many worlds, so much to do, | ARPA: tittle@ics.uci.edu So little done, such things to be | BITNET: cltittle@uci.bitnet --Tennyson | UUCP: {sdcsvax|ucbvax}!ucivax!tittle