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Mike, > To: address@hidden > From: address@hidden (Mike Barwise) > Organization: . > Subject: NetCDF download > Keywords: 199601192113.AA04247 In the above message you wrote: > I have been trying to download netcdf.tar.z, but am experiencing problems. > > Your ftp site only seems to respond between about 21:00 and 23:00 my time > (GMT), and I cannot get a transfer rate better than 0.3kb/sec. At this rate, > I would have to be on the phone for a couple of hours. > > Do you have a problem at the moment, or can you suggest a better time of day > to connect/alternate site? I'm very surprised by this. We use a FDDI ring to connect to our site's T3 gateway to the Internet. I doubt very strongly that the bottleneck is at our end. Since you're in Britain, I suspect that the problem lies somewhere on the USA's East Coast or in Britain. Have you tried using a utility for tracing Internet routes and times (e.g. `traceroute')? -------- Steve Emmerson <address@hidden>