ftp://ftp.f-prot updates taking forever to download

tinklemagoo · External Since: Feb 01, 2006 Posts: 1

Slow as hell downloading from ftp://ftp.f-prot.com/pub/ for about 2 weeks
now.

ntl broadband no problems surfing/downloading anywhere else just f-prot ftp.
Can the newest updates be downloaded anywhere else?

Jim · External Since: Feb 10, 2006 Posts: 2

"tinklemagoo" <tinklemagoo.DeleteThis@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> Slow as hell downloading from ftp://ftp.f-prot.com/pub/ for about 2 weeks
> now.
>
> ntl broadband no problems surfing/downloading anywhere else just f-prot
ftp.
> Can the newest updates be downloaded anywhere else?
>
I've been having the same problems on a half-dozen computers but it seems to
have cleared up within the last day.

I'm in the US and noted it was trying to update from EUR- servers. It would
always fail, timeouts. Now it's using using us-2.updates.f-prot.net and it
seems ok.

This has happened before sporadically though, so I would be interested in
finding out what's going on. There's no info about the problems at their
site and the form you have to fill out to send a support request takes so
long to fill out I haven't bothered.

Good luck.

me · External Since: Dec 27, 2004 Posts: 201

"tinklemagoo" <tinklemagoo RemoveThis @ntlworld.com> wrote in
news:n6%Df.23210$mf2.1015@newsfe6-win.ntli.net:

> Slow as hell downloading from ftp://ftp.f-prot.com/pub/
> for about 2 weeks now.
>
> ntl broadband no problems surfing/downloading anywhere else
> just f-prot ftp. Can the newest updates be downloaded
> anywhere else?
>
D/L'ed 2 days ago, w/o any problems (very good speed).
The d/l speed varies greatly (as bad as double the "normal").
Generaly, daytime (EST) on weekends is hopeless.

FWIW: Attempt to d/l macrdef2.zip. If the time exceeeds whatever
you consider "good" for your connection, try again later. Note
that's on a dialup -- IMMV.

J
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