On Monday 31 March 2003 13:21, Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote: > Which makes this whole *early-access* exercise silly. I'm getting > 120kB/s from BitTorrent, which is about 12x what I am getting from RHN. > > It is discouraging that despite purchasing RHN subscriptions for my > various and sundry machines, I have little use for it. (I don't even > bother registering most of them.) Instead, I use BitTorrent or rsync > for downloads, and APT for package management. (Thanks Matthias!) > > The Red Hat Network technology is unfortunately hobbled by the > business model. I don' I've been informed by Red Hat employees that more bandwidth is going into the pool at midnight EST, and should eliviate a lot of the current slowdown. Keep in mind, w/out RHN early access, BitTorrent would have never gotten the ISOs in the first place. As I point out to some, 4KB/s is a whole heck of a lot better than 0KB/s. -- Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE http://geek.j2solutions.net Mondo DevTeam (http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating
