[tex-live] problems with tl2016 pretest

[Mojca Miklavec]

On 12 May 2016 at 14:53, Jim Diamond wrote:
>
> (3) The download speed is very slow.  I don't know if
>     ftp.math.utah.edu throttles its connections or is just very busy,
>     or something else makes the installation happen very slowly.
>     But in any case, things are slow.  (I'm not complaining, just
>     observing and reporting!)

You could check if using one of the European mirrors helps.

You could also try to fetch the files with rsync first and then
install from the tarballs on the filesystem.

Mojca