Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/10/30/21:38:57
Chris, Gregg,
At 18:19 2002-10-30, you wrote:
>On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 06:54:00PM -0500, Gregg C Levine wrote:
> >Chris, can you contact the manager of the mirror site for Cygwin, that's
> >hosted at http://mirror.rcn.net ? And the one at http://planetmirror.com ?
>
>I don't have any special power or inside relationship with mirror sites.
>They volunteer their services and we're grateful that they do.
>
>It sounds to me like you are having problems in some connection
>somewhere. It's likely between between brain and keyboard,
>computer and modem, or modem and ISP.
I had the same problems with mirror.rcn.net. For a long time they were my
preferred mirror, but then things got pretty iffy, and I switched to
mcs.anl.gov. I had the same symptoms--stalled transfers.
>If you think there is some other problem somewhere then you should
>contact them yourself. If there really is a problem then you'd actually
>be giving something back to the community.
I just voted with my feet, as it were. I doubt they missed me...
>cgf
Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA
> >For the first one, it has a nasty habit of not allowing me to complete a
> >download, at normal dialup speeds. For the second one, it has a bad habit of
> >taking six to ten times as long, as all of the other mirror sites I've used.
> >I am allowing for the usual problems of massive downloads over a http link,
> >but for RCN's hardware, I think there is something wrong with them.
> >Planetmirror just has more issues then we do as people. I just would like
> >you to speak to them, regarding those issues. And you can see the reasons,
> >regarding my complaints regarding RCN. If you would like to take this
> >statement to an off list discussion, go right ahead.
> >Gregg C Levine drwho8 AT worldnet DOT att DOT net
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