Re: No Postgres Bug! Heavy downloading problems...

On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 10:08:50AM -0500, pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org wrote:
> Juri Memmert (memmert@attglobal.net) reports a bug with a severity of 3
> The lower the number the more severe it is.
> 
> Short Description
> No Postgres Bug! Heavy downloading problems...
> 
> Long Description
> Greetings and sorry for wasting your time with a bug report on this...
> but from most available mirrors, I have tried to download the latest version.
> After a maximum of 6% the download stalls on all of them. and even in that time, the download is terribly slow (1 byte per second is not unusual)
> I do have an older version, but would like to upgrade... and I can't.
> This is annoying.
> 
> I hope there is nothing severely wrong, but could it be that there is something fishy witht e files prepared for the upload?
> 
> I hope you can fix this...
> 
> Yours,
> 
>      Juri Memmert


Hmmm... I just did a transfer and got 37.38KB/sec from the main site. 

Use the traceroute command to find out what is slow in your connection 
to the site.  If you are on NT I thinkt the command is tracert (should 
be in winnt/system32).  You can then see the node that is causing 
the slow down.

- Robert