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Old 10-18-2005, 04:22 PM   #1
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Comparing FTP servers?


Is there a program or Web site that I can put a list of FTP servers into and it will tell me which would be the fastest to download from and how many users are using each site. I keep trying to install Mandriva from FTP and half way through the install aborts because the server became full. I guess that ping can tell how fast a site is, but I don't know how to read the information that it prints out.
 
Old 10-18-2005, 05:11 PM   #2
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Ping requets are in miliseconds usually. That is the response time to the ping packet that it sends to the server. A server can respond to a ping quickly but still be a slow connection if people are downloading from it.

As for pulling a FTP imformation you may need to google it. If its a anonymous FTP you might be able to find a program from the internet that interperates the information but I dont know how public that information is accessable from an ftp server and if its reported the same way from different servers.
 
Old 10-18-2005, 05:12 PM   #3
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why don't use use bittorrent to download it?
 
  


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