[plug] RH updates availability?

[Bret Busby]

After spending several hours and repeated attempts to download 90MB of
packages for updating installed packages on RH7.3, and finally managing to
complete the download, the updating was aborted by red hat, with an error
message
"Free service limited due to high load
....
Due to extremely high traffic, access to Red Hat Network is currently
limited to subscription customers."

Note: this occurred AFTER the packages were downloaded, and the computer
was supposedly installing the more current RPM's, that had been
downloaded.

Is this a common occurrence?

Does this mean that RH up2date does not work unless a user has a paid
support contract?

Has anyone got up2date to work, with RH 7.3?

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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