I am running rh9 on a Compaq Presario 800 mhz AMD duron Processor with 256
ram and a smc2-1211tx network card.  I have highspeed broadband at 512 and
my firewall is standard configuration from install.  When I try to
download an iso from an ftp site either using my browser or gftp, it will
download only to a certain point and then just stalls.  I have dropped my
firewall completely and have also checked with my isp to see if there may
be a problem on that end of things with no success.  The most I am able to
do is 34% complete.  I have checked with the local linux gurus and they ar
eat a loss as to what the problem might be.  Has anyone out there ever had
this problem or can anyone tell me where to start looking.  This is ver
frustrating to say the least.......thanks in advance for any insight you
can give me.........

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nelson high wrote:
> When I try to
> download an iso from an ftp site either using my browser or gftp, it will
> download only to a certain point and then just stalls.

Well, I don't know gftp but why don't you use a download manager that
supports a reconnection when a download gets stalled. I always download
ISO images of Linux using GetRight, which supports multiple downloads
from _various_ locations and I've never had any problems so far.
Please don't try to open more than one connection to the same location
(maybe in your case gftp does that), since several sites simply block
you for being too "incooperative" or too greedy.

My solution that's always worked is to use GetRight, tell the program 4
to 6 different download locations and let it have fun ;-)


Chris

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On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 20:57:24 -0500, nelson high thoughtfully wrote:

> I am running rh9 on a Compaq Presario 800 mhz AMD duron Processor with 256
> ram and a smc2-1211tx network card.  I have highspeed broadband at 512 and
> my firewall is standard configuration from install.  When I try to
> download an iso from an ftp site either using my browser or gftp, it will
> download only to a certain point and then just stalls.  I have dropped my
> firewall completely and have also checked with my isp to see if there may
> be a problem on that end of things with no success.  The most I am able to
> do is 34% complete.  I have checked with the local linux gurus and they ar
> eat a loss as to what the problem might be.  Has anyone out there ever had
> this problem or can anyone tell me where to start looking.  This is ver
> frustrating to say the least.......thanks in advance for any insight you
> can give me.........


Turn on logging in gFTP.  I doubt it's a firewall issue because you're
getting 34% whether gFTP or browser.   Sometimes a slow connection kills a
transfer, try a mirror site and start dl just before you good to bed.

I'm thinking its a problem with your disk space or ISP connection.  You
could check system logs for events around the time of failure

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On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 20:57:24 -0500, nelson high wrote:

> I am running rh9 on a Compaq Presario 800 mhz AMD duron Processor with 256
> ram and a smc2-1211tx network card.  I have highspeed broadband at 512 and
> my firewall is standard configuration from install.  When I try to
> download an iso from an ftp site either using my browser or gftp, it will
> download only to a certain point and then just stalls.  I have dropped my
> firewall completely and have also checked with my isp to see if there may
> be a problem on that end of things with no success.  The most I am able to
> do is 34% complete.  I have checked with the local linux gurus and they ar
> eat a loss as to what the problem might be.  Has anyone out there ever had
> this problem or can anyone tell me where to start looking.  This is ver
> frustrating to say the least.......thanks in advance for any insight you
> can give me.........

Try different mirrors and just download one ISO at a time. If you want to
give Mandrake 10.1 a try, they use Bittorrent as well as FTP. Bittorrent
is slow but reliable. It's inherently fault tolerant because it relies on
using multiple p2p connections and it has to assume that each connection
can be terminated at any time.

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