uninstall help please

David Nicholls david at mso.anu.edu.au
Fri Apr 30 23:10:53 PDT 2010


Andrea D'Amore wrote:
> On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>> I don't think Mac OS Forge is imposing any transfer limits, and MacPorts is small enough that even tripling the download size wouldn't matter.
> 
> Interesting enough I have always got and still get about 30 kb/s from
> macosforge, this is particularly evident for XQuartz. I workaround
> proxying the file on a computer at uni, where it downloads at about
> 350 kb/s. I always wondered if it was a routing issue of my ISP or
> what.
> 

It may be a packet size problem on a router somewhere between you and 
macosforge.  Seems to slow things down a lot.  The most extreme version 
is the "black hole router" problem, where nothing gets through.

DN
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