Wow, what bad speeds I'm getting from RHN... Queued up my download before heading out the door earlier today. It crawled along at 5k/s and died after 69MB. Now I'm getting 13k/s...
Enter BitTorrent. Fired that up, got the RHL9 .torrent file, and off to the races! Currently pulling over 250k/s (and pushing out 15k/s; cable modem). Not exactly what Red Hat wants, I'm sure, since people who don't have an RHN subscription can get it, but hey. I don't feel bad about it, 'cuz I DO have an RHN subscription, and now I'm helping others get it too (hopefully, they have RHN subs too :).
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Jarod Wilson, RHCE
<jcw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
"A wise man once said nothing at all."
I was getting 3Kb/s downloads from RedHat all morning 3/31 EST, around noon I saw the bit-torrent thing on slashdot.
I killed my RHN downloads and used Bit-Torrent, got an average of around 200Kb/s download speed, and averaged around 120Kb/s upload.
Got my 3 disks, the MD5 checksum worked, and I installed them already on a machine at home.
-Ben.
