Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL!W8SDZ
From: W8SDZ@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL (Keith Petersen)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: SIMTEL20 FTP performance
Summary: Try again, new network software has been installed
Keywords: simtel20,ftp
Message-ID: 
Date: 6 Dec 88 22:32:00 GMT
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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> Sometimes when I ftp from simtel20 I will be able to start
> a transfer but at some point the packets just seem to stop
> coming.  The process just sits there until I kill it and 
> the file never gets any larger.  I have not been able to ftp
> even one long file for the past couple of months at least if
> not longer although I have done it in the past (i.e. 6 months
> ago).  I was wondering if there is anything that I need to do
> to alleviate the problem or is it something that I will have
> to live with.

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.
---
Keith Petersen
Maintainer of the CP/M & MSDOS archives at wsmr-simtel20.army.mil [26.0.0.74]
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