Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!simon From: simon@ms.uky.edu (Simon Gales) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: SIMTEL20 FTP performance Keywords: simtel20,ftp Message-ID: <10674@s.ms.uky.edu> Date: 8 Dec 88 01:44:19 GMT References:Reply-To: simon@ms.uky.edu (Simon Gales) Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 28 In article W8SDZ@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL (Keith Petersen) writes: > [...] > Some users have experienced the same problem. Help has arrived! New > network software was installed a few days ago which has resulted in an > impressive improvement in performance. If you've given up on using > FTP to get files from SIMTEL20 try again. If you get "connection > refused" keep trying. That just means all the net ports are busy. > I tried using simtel20 today (Wednesday December 7, 1988) and encountered the same problems as usual. Simtel20 responded sluggishly, and died in the middle of the transfer (less than 60k made it thru). When I break ftp on my end, I get the familiar 'remote server has closed connection' message. Why don't I get the message when the connection is closed? Why is it closed at all? Is the new network software in place yet? /--------------------------------------------------------------------------\ Simon Gales@University of Ky UUCP: {rutgers, uunet}!ukma!simon Arpa: simon@ms.uky.edu MaBell: 263-2285/257-3597 BitNet: simon@UKMA.BITNET -- /--------------------------------------------------------------------------\ Simon Gales@University of Ky UUCP: {rutgers, uunet}!ukma!simon Arpa: simon@ms.uky.edu MaBell: 263-2285/257-3597 BitNet: simon@UKMA.BITNET