Hi, I too face many times such problems on my dial up connection. Just yesterday when I tried to download the rpm files of icewm, two of them got downloaded properly but the icewm-common file was just timing out in between. I tried it many times, but could not succeed. Finally a fellow icewm listers has sent me that rpm file by mail.
Today I tried to download SDL latest version. The SDL binary rpm got downloaded properly but the SDL-devel package was timing out. I wanted the devel package for compiling some stuff I had downloaded from Freshmeat. Is this problem of the Host site or ISP ??? Presently I am using SuSE 7 and will be shifting to Debian soon. May be this week itself. Regards Rajesh Carl Johnson saw fit to inform me that: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Kelm) writes: > >> I am having trouble getting reliable downloads using Debian 2.2. After >> downloading 30-150KB the download usually stops and eventually times >> out. I noticed this first when I tried using apt-get to download the >> base system packages. During 'apt-get update' download of the package >> lists, the system will time out. It took several attempts to finally >> get the full lists. It took even longer to download the necessary >> packages. > >I have the same problem, but some sites are much worse than others. I >know it was happening with Debian 2.1, but I don't know about before >that. You don't mention if you are using a modem, cable, or DSL, but >I am using a modem. My suspicion is that it is due to timeouts at the >host site, ISP, or somewhere in-between. Since modems are much >slower, I suspect that modem users are much more likely to have this >kind of problem. > >I used a unix login at my ISP to test some sites, and downloads >directly to my ISP are completely error free. Downloads directly from >my ISP are similarly error free, so see if you can come to any other >conclusions. If anybody else has any other information *please* let >me know. > >Some times are much better than others, so you may want to setup wget >to automatically download at off-peak times. I use wget with options >-t 10 -T 60 so it will keep trying with short timeouts. > -- Rajesh Fowkar /**********************************************************************************\ * WebSite:http://rajesh.computers.webjump.com Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Address:KURTARKAR NAGARI,BLDG-C,T4,3RD FLOOR,SHANTINAGAR,PONDA-GOA.(INDIA) * * "The expert at anything was once a beginner." -Hayes /**********************************************************************************\