I am in the process of trying to upgrade my computers to 2.2. My workstation was running 2.0 and my server was running 1.3. When I upgraded my workstation, I started having network problems. Downloading files seems to frequently stop after 1-5 minutes. The network is still up, pinging the source still works. Other connections (e.g., http) still are running. There is just no download occurring! Sometimes everything works great. My slrnpull cron job hasn't worked since the upgrade because it aborts after downloading one group and part way through the next group with the error "***Connection to news.concentric.net lost. Performing shutdown.".
I thought there might be some problem with the server (acting as my Internet gateway) running 1.3, and since I needed to install a larger hard drive anyway, I did a clean install of 2.2 on the server. Everything goes great until I get to the point of downloading the rest of the system using ftp and apt-get. When I try to do "apt-get update" the same downloading problem occurs and apt-get times out without getting the full packages listing. I've been using Linux for a couple years now, but I'm no expert. Usually the Debian installs and upgrades work without any big problems. I'm not sure how to go about troubleshooting this one. The log files don't show anything curious. I've checked the archives of this mailing list, but haven't found any mention of a similar problem. So it must be something I'm not doing correctly. Both machines are using 486 processors. They use different network cards (NE2000 and HP J2405A). Last night I upgraded my workstation to 2.2r2, but the problem persists. I would appreciate any help this group can provide. Thanks, Jeff
