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    From Norm Why@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jun 17 18:10:14 2021
    My home network is Gigabit speed. I was able to transfer a large package at about 700 Mbps. But it took a long time.

    The package is an Oracle Virtual machine. It did not work as expected. I
    guess the package was corrupted in passage. Downloaded software usually
    works. Would FTP be better?

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  • From Paul@21:1/5 to Norm Why on Thu Jun 17 21:41:54 2021
    Norm Why wrote:
    My home network is Gigabit speed. I was able to transfer a large package at about 700 Mbps. But it took a long time.

    The package is an Oracle Virtual machine. It did not work as expected. I guess the package was corrupted in passage. Downloaded software usually works. Would FTP be better?

    Did it have a SHA1 or SHA256 sum on the sourcing website ?

    Did you locally generate a SHA1 or SHA256 sum and run
    it through Google, for hits ? To see if the hash value
    had been the subject of discussion somewhere.

    And the answer is no, FTP is not necessarily any better.
    If there's a hardware problem on the source equipment, isn't
    it likely to affect multiple comm protocols ?

    Microsoft servers seemed to have a bug, one with a duration
    of several years, which affected downloads. But that's been
    fixed. With that one, it "spread" from one part of the business
    to others. First the Windows ISOs were affected. Then it
    started to affect WADK ISO downloads and other things.
    You could get truncated (short) files, with both ends of the
    link concluding the protocol had terminated normally. But the
    file could be shortened enough, you could tell right away
    something was abnormal.

    Paul

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  • From David W. Hodgins@21:1/5 to Norm Why on Thu Jun 17 21:38:55 2021
    On Thu, 17 Jun 2021 21:10:14 -0400, Norm Why <[email protected]> wrote:

    My home network is Gigabit speed. I was able to transfer a large package at about 700 Mbps. But it took a long time.

    The package is an Oracle Virtual machine. It did not work as expected. I guess the package was corrupted in passage. Downloaded software usually works. Would FTP be better?

    Run a checksum of the file on both machines (crc, md5, sha3, etc.) and compare them. For download corruption even crc is good enough.

    With Virtualbox, copying the install from one system to another doesn't work
    in my experience, likely due to the uuids and paths in the config files.

    Using the export/import feature of Virtualbox would likely work though I haven't
    tried it.

    Regards, Dave Hodgins

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  • From Adrian Caspersz@21:1/5 to Norm Why on Sat Jun 19 15:02:02 2021
    On 18/06/2021 02:10, Norm Why wrote:
    My home network is Gigabit speed. I was able to transfer a large package at about 700 Mbps. But it took a long time.

    Are all your network interfaces actually running at gigabit full duplex. Likewise, do all switch ports tally with this?

    Also check you don't have an addressing conflict.

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  • From Norm Why@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jun 25 04:19:06 2021
    My home network is Gigabit speed. I was able to transfer a large package
    at
    about 700 Mbps. But it took a long time.

    The package is an Oracle Virtual machine. It did not work as expected. I
    guess the package was corrupted in passage. Downloaded software usually
    works. Would FTP be better?

    Run a checksum of the file on both machines (crc, md5, sha3, etc.) and compare
    them. For download corruption even crc is good enough.

    With Virtualbox, copying the install from one system to another doesn't
    work
    in my experience, likely due to the uuids and paths in the config files.

    I have moved from one to another. E.g. Debian

    Using the export/import feature of Virtualbox would likely work though I haven't
    tried it.

    Regards, Dave Hodgins

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  • From Norm Why@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jun 25 04:20:45 2021
    My home network is Gigabit speed. I was able to transfer a large package >>> at
    about 700 Mbps. But it took a long time.

    The package is an Oracle Virtual machine. It did not work as expected. I >>> guess the package was corrupted in passage. Downloaded software usually
    works. Would FTP be better?

    Run a checksum of the file on both machines (crc, md5, sha3, etc.) and
    compare
    them. For download corruption even crc is good enough.

    With Virtualbox, copying the install from one system to another doesn't
    work
    in my experience, likely due to the uuids and paths in the config files.

    I have moved from one to another. E.g. Debian

    On a thumbdrive, IIRC.

    Using the export/import feature of Virtualbox would likely work though I
    haven't
    tried it.

    Regards, Dave Hodgins

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    email replies.



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