Hi Tony, I am in California too - southern california to be exact. I don't know why it's not working for you because it works fine for me. Maybe your FTP program is not connecting correctly. Me, i use wget (avilable for windows as well as a default on Linux) for my Gutenberg downloading needs. I plan to get an external hard drive (preferably an Iomega drive) later, probably for my birthday next Thursday, which i can then use to store the Gutenberg etexts and save me some disk space on my current drive. I would be using rsync to do that (check the Mirroring FAQ on PG if you don't know what that is), apparently it's much faster than wget or even FTP because it doesn't check every single file for hours to find updates, it keeps a list of all files and only downloads the ones that specifically need updating, saves you a couple of hours of time. Or at least that's what Aaron (Cannon) told me. Jared Tony Baechler wrote on 26/06/2006, 11:47 AM:
Hi list,
I know that often ftp.archive.org is down for a few days at a time, but it has been down now for almost all of June. Is this permanent? Is ftp access via ftp.archive.org ended? I prefer it over ftp.ibiblio.org for PG files because it is significantly faster. If ftp access is no longer available, can anyone recommend a fast mirror that is kept frequently up to date? I tried snowy.arsc.alaska.edu but it wasn't as current as I would like. I'm planning to download several thousand zip files so a fast mirror is appreciated. I'm sure http is faster but I would prefer ftp if possible. Besides http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/ isn't really much faster than metalab.unc.edu, AKA ftp.ibiblio.org. Is there a chance that ftp.archive.org has moved to a different host or ip address?
I'm running ncftp for Windows so I don't think it's a caching or dns problem. I think I tried under Linux as well with similar results. It tries for about a minute and times out. I tried with and without passive mode but it doesn't matter since I can't connect. I am in California, US.
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