SUSE 11.1 Error on Step #5 Perfect Server Setup

Getting connection error for:

Download (curl) error for 'http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/content':
Error code: Connection failed
Error message: Failed to connect to 2610:148:fd80:3d6f:209:3dff:fe12:8c02: Network is unreachable

then says:
Cannot access installation media
(Medium 1).
Check whether the server is accessible.


I do skip autor refresh and get

Following packages haven't been found on the medium:
compat-readline4

 

Did you try multiple times? Does the network connection work?

 

Yes network connection works or else i would not be able to responde to this post

Ok so I tried keep on hitting the "Retry" a gazillion times and got a little further in installing stuff but now get this error message.

Following packages haven't been found on the medium:
compat-readline4

 

Not sure what's happening, but given the fact that I'm always having problems with Suse, I'd suggest to use another distro.