Non-torrent D/L of 4.3 DVD image?

[mail-lists at karan.org (Karanbir Singh)]

Jack Bailey wrote:
> 
>>>
>>> I do believe that something is wrong with the setup. I get torrent
>>> connection speeds that vary wildly from 10KB/sec to about 200KB/sec. FTP
>>> gets me about 1380KB/sec.
>>>
>>
>> surely, these are not centos DVD image torrents you are talking about
>> here ?  if they are - can you give me some time scales as to when you
>> had this sort of a speed issue ?
> 
> Yes, the DVD torrents. I started the DVD download last night about 
> 9:00PM. I went to bed at 3:00AM, with 5 hours, 20 minutes remaining of 
> download time remaining. This morning I checked the file modification 
> time which works out to a total download time of about 10 hours, 50 
> minutes. Contrast this to downloading all 4 CDs in under 30 minutes.

am looking at this issue right now...


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