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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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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On Thu, 17 Jun 2021 21:10:14 -0400, Norm Why <nobody@microsoft.com> 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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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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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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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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