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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
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Reply-To: simon@ms.uky.edu (Simon Gales)
Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences
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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?

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