slow connection improvement using debdelta

2013-05-13 Thread songbird
For Richard and others at the end of a slower connection or dialup. give debdelta a try. seems to be working well for me other than some timeouts, but i just restart it and eventually it finishes. compared to a regular update run it's saving me quite a bit of time. just one example fr

about slow connection on debian vs xp

2006-11-06 Thread Zoran Kolic
> Forgive me for jumping in like this. I have no idea what the original > querier's problem is, save the quotation above. Given that, I wish to state > the following: > I too had this problem. I got rid of dhcp, chucked the /etc/resolv.conf > file's content and let pppoeconf do the rest. This may b

Missing headers (was Re: Use Debian mailinglists with slow connection to Internet?)

2003-12-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 12:34:07PM +, Clive Standbridge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat 13 Dec 2003 12:51:37 +(-0800), Karsten M. Self wrote: > > ...OTOH, it may reduce a lot of the overhead of full headers. > Hmm, the references and in-reply-to headers have been missing for the last

Re: Use Debian mailinglists with slow connection to Internet?

2003-12-14 Thread Clive Standbridge
On Sat 13 Dec 2003 12:51:37 +(-0800), Karsten M. Self wrote: > What's your fetch mode? I'm finding that fetchmail over 56k is taking > ~5-10 seconds per message (mostly depending on how much Swen I've got). POP3/fetchmail/exim/procmail. I'm on 56k too, actually about 40k in reality. I haven

Re: Use Debian mailinglists with slow connection to Internet?

2003-12-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 03:56:24PM -0700, s. keeling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Incoming from Karsten M. Self: > > > > What's your fetch mode? I'm finding that fetchmail over 56k is taking > > ~5-10 seconds per message (mostly depending on how much Swen I've got). > > What?!? Swen, now? Don'

Re: Use Debian mailinglists with slow connection to Internet?

2003-12-13 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Karsten M. Self: > > What's your fetch mode? I'm finding that fetchmail over 56k is taking > ~5-10 seconds per message (mostly depending on how much Swen I've got). What?!? Swen, now? Don't you have access to a shell acct? If you do, kill that crap on the server. I haven't seen

Re: Use Debian mailinglists with slow connection to Internet?

2003-12-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 07:10:11PM +, Clive Standbridge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat 13 Dec 2003 01:14:53 +(-0800), Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > Alternatively, reduce your online overhead by subscribing to > > > debian-user-digest instead of debian-user. > > > > No. You get all

Re: Use Debian mailinglists with slow connection to Internet?

2003-12-13 Thread Clive Standbridge
On Sat 13 Dec 2003 01:14:53 +(-0800), Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Alternatively, reduce your online overhead by subscribing to > > debian-user-digest instead of debian-user. > > No. You get all the traffic in undigestable chunks. Chunks, yes (that's the point). Indigestible, no. The second

Re: Use Debian mailinglists with slow connection to Internet?

2003-12-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 07:14:25PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > The Debian mailing lists produce big trafic of email. If I want to > follow them regularly I have to use a slow and expensive connection to > Internet (low quality phone line or mobile

Re: Use Debian mailinglists with slow connection to Internet?

2003-12-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 07:14:25PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi! > > The Debian mailing lists produce big trafic of email. If I want to > follow them regularly I have to use a slow and expensive connection to > Internet (low quality phone line or mobile phone). I tried t

Re: Use Debian mailinglists with slow connection to Internet?

2003-12-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 01:00:51AM +, Clive Standbridge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri 12 Dec 2003 19:14:25 +(+0200), Anton Zinoviev wrote: > > > computer I use? Is the following scenario possible somehow: First, I > > connect to Internet in order to get automaticaly the first messag

Re: Use Debian mailinglists with slow connection to Internet?

2003-12-12 Thread Clive Standbridge
On Fri 12 Dec 2003 19:14:25 +(+0200), Anton Zinoviev wrote: > computer I use? Is the following scenario possible somehow: First, I > connect to Internet in order to get automaticaly the first messages > from each thread. Then read the received messages offline. Next by > some "subscription"

Re: Use Debian mailinglists with slow connection to Internet?

2003-12-12 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 at 17:14 GMT, Anton Zinoviev penned: > Hi! > > The Debian mailing lists produce big trafic of email. If I want to > follow them regularly I have to use a slow and expensive connection to > Internet (low quality phone line or mobile phone). I tried to use > offlineimap but thi

Re: Use Debian mailinglists with slow connection to Internet?

2003-12-12 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Anton Zinoviev: > > It would be nice however to find a solution that will not require to > install anything on the server. Got a web browser or newsreader? Debian mailinglists are gatewayed to Usenet (linux.debian.user & etc.). That's read only though. If you want to be able to p

Use Debian mailinglists with slow connection to Internet?

2003-12-12 Thread Anton Zinoviev
Hi! The Debian mailing lists produce big trafic of email. If I want to follow them regularly I have to use a slow and expensive connection to Internet (low quality phone line or mobile phone). I tried to use offlineimap but this was only to realise that I can afford it. May be other people have

galeon and mozilla hang with slow connection

2003-07-28 Thread Micha Feigin
When using galeon and mozilla, if there is a hang with the connection, i.e whatever request they are performing doesn't happen imediatly they hang up completly untill they get some reply. Thus if I try to connect under load or a slow site they don't redraw the window, don't respond to button, close

Re: 'apt-get upgrade' Over Slow Connection

2003-07-01 Thread Manolis Tzanidakis
[20030629] Kenneth Jacker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Is it possible to have my home system find out what's needed, create a > file with that info, transfer it to my office machine, get the needed > files, put them on a CD, read the CD at home, and update/upgrade? $ apt-get install apt-zip $ man

Re: 'apt-get upgrade' Over Slow Connection

2003-06-30 Thread Andre Berger
--gKMricLos+KVdGMg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Kenneth Jacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2003-06-30 09:37 -0400: > 'apt-get upgrade' is fine if you've got a fast Internet connection. >=20 > However, what do folks d

Re: 'apt-get upgrade' Over Slow Connection

2003-06-30 Thread VĂ­ctor Zabalza
En/na Kenneth Jacker ha escrit: > Is it possible to have my home system find out what's needed, create a > file with that info, transfer it to my office machine, get the needed > files, put them on a CD, read the CD at home, and update/upgrade? There was an articl covering exactly that problem in

Re: 'apt-get upgrade' Over Slow Connection

2003-06-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 07:48:11PM -0400, Kenneth Jacker wrote: > 'apt-get upgrade' is fine if you've got a fast Internet connection. > > However, what do folks do when they still have *slow* Internet > connections (waiting for DSL, my home system still only works at > ~25kbps, maybe ~30kbps)? >

'apt-get upgrade' Over Slow Connection

2003-06-30 Thread Kenneth Jacker
'apt-get upgrade' is fine if you've got a fast Internet connection. However, what do folks do when they still have *slow* Internet connections (waiting for DSL, my home system still only works at ~25kbps, maybe ~30kbps)? Is it possible to have my home system find out what's needed, create a file

Re: slow connection

1999-03-18 Thread Chuck Lackey
On Wed, 17 Mar 1999 18:31:43 +0100, Juha wrote: >Hello everybody! >I need help to troubleshoot my Internet-connection. I have new 3com. >U.S.Robotics modem and it works well with Windows. I can get connnected in, >but transfer-rate is extremly slow. Netscape-homepage takes 2-3 minutes to >downloa

Re: slow connection

1999-03-18 Thread John Hasler
Juha writes: > I have new 3com. U.S.Robotics modem and it works well with Windows. I > can get connnected in, but transfer-rate is extremly slow. Please post your /etc/ppp/peers/provider, /etc/ppp/options, and the equivalent information from Windows. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler

slow connection

1999-03-17 Thread Juha
Hello everybody! I need help to troubleshoot my Internet-connection. I have new 3com. U.S.Robotics modem and it works well with Windows. I can get connnected in, but transfer-rate is extremly slow. Netscape-homepage takes 2-3 minutes to download. Can somebody help me out here? Juha Korkiakangas