Re: Frequent download time outs - Solved?

2001-02-09 Thread Carl Johnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Kelm) writes: > I have figured out a way to solve my problem. Using tcpdump I was able > to determine that the problem always occurred when the exchange was > doing SACK (Selective Acknowledgement). This is a feature turned on by > default in the 2.2.x kernels (actually s

Re: Frequent download time outs - Solved?

2001-02-08 Thread Jeff Kelm
I have figured out a way to solve my problem. Using tcpdump I was able to determine that the problem always occurred when the exchange was doing SACK (Selective Acknowledgement). This is a feature turned on by default in the 2.2.x kernels (actually since 2.1.??). It is intended to increase perfo

Re: Frequent download time outs

2001-01-22 Thread David Wright
Quoting Jeff Kelm ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I am having trouble getting reliable downloads using Debian 2.2. After > downloading 30-150KB the download usually stops and eventually times > out. I noticed this first when I tried using apt-get to download the > base system packages. During 'apt-get up

Re: Frequent download time outs

2001-01-21 Thread Jeff Kelm
Carl Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I have the same problem, but some sites are much worse than others. I >know it was happening with Debian 2.1, but I don't know about before >that. You don't mention if you are using a modem, cable, or DSL, but >I am using a modem. My suspicion is that i

Re: Frequent download time outs

2001-01-21 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Hi, I too face many times such problems on my dial up connection. Just yesterday when I tried to download the rpm files of icewm, two of them got downloaded properly but the icewm-common file was just timing out in between. I tried it many times, but could not succeed. Finally a fellow icewm liste

Re: Frequent download time outs

2001-01-21 Thread Carl Johnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Kelm) writes: > I am having trouble getting reliable downloads using Debian 2.2. After > downloading 30-150KB the download usually stops and eventually times > out. I noticed this first when I tried using apt-get to download the > base system packages. During 'apt-get up

Frequent download time outs

2001-01-20 Thread Jeff Kelm
I am having trouble getting reliable downloads using Debian 2.2. After downloading 30-150KB the download usually stops and eventually times out. I noticed this first when I tried using apt-get to download the base system packages. During 'apt-get update' download of the package lists, the system