Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!ucsd!sdcsvax!amos!hartung From: hartung@amos.ling.ucsd.edu (Jeff Hartung) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: SIMTEL20 FTP performance Summary: Wow! What a difference! Keywords: simtel20,ftp Message-ID: <5652@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> Date: 10 Dec 88 03:49:44 GMT References: Sender: nobody@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU Reply-To: hartung@amos.UUCP (Jeff Hartung) Followup-To: Comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Organization: Univ. of Calif., San Diego Lines: 19 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 have received numerous messages from several people since my original posting about SIMTEL20 and ftp's and I would like to thank everyone. Since the changes Keith mentions above were made, and perhaps also thanks to our being added to the routing tables at SIMTEL20, things have been going great. Large and small files now transfer completely and *quickly*, too! Thanks again to everyone who helped. --Jeff-- --Jeff Hartung-- Disclaimer: "Nobody here really cares what I think anyhow." ARPA - hartung@amos.ling.ucsd.edu UUCP - ucsd!amos.ucsd.edu!hartung