On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 01:03:52PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 01 Aug 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > But not rsync, which I use whenever I can for large downloads due to > > errors creeping in for some reason over my noisy phone line and freqent > > line drops (and susequent redials by pppd). > > Why do you allow for damaged packets at all? > > I used analog async ITU-T V42 modems for a *long* time (fortunately, I was > able to move away before V9x hit the market). You really want an error-free > channel without compression for regular Internet over PPP domestic use, and > any modem still on the market should be able to deliver that to you just > fine. Just configure it for error correction without compression, and have > a proper error-free short and well-shielded serial connection to it if it is > an external modem. >
Its an external 3Com Courier modem, that's not the problem. I don't know _where_ the errors happen, but the more times the download is interrupted the more frequently there are issues somewhere in the iso. Not a problem if I can find an rsync server with the file, but a royal pain with plain ftp. I _once_ had to download three defective copies of an ISO (took a couple of weeks) and use that gnu tool that creates a single good file out of three bad ones. It has never been a problem when downloading packages via aptitude, even if I have to interrupt it. However, under sarge, I found that gftp would die out and not resume properly, corrupting the file, and that sometimes wget will also corrupt the file. For all I know, the errors are happening upstream of my ISP's modem. I'm using porchlight which gives me unlimited for 9.99 per month. This never happened when I lived outside of Parry Sound, farther away from the telephone exchange, but paid $24.95 per month. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
