Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5130 mails)

[kai <kai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I started dowloading the 10.1 using this torrent source thing. I'd downloaded 
a few things before and figured it would be good to both serve and get.

Man what a mess. I left my laptop on all night, expecting the 3GB torrent to 
be finished. 

Nope.

I got a message on my system after only 700MB saying the KTorrent had somehow 
bombed. (I don't have Azereous on this machine.)  I then launched Azereous 
and tried the torrent again. While only getting 80 - 100Kb/sec download, I 
let it download all day while I was at work. 

Sure enough, it had only downloaded 800MB. What a joke! If I'd just done a 
direct download I would have had all five CDs downloaded in a few hours. (I 
have 3000KB/s DSL with general sustained speeds of 2500 or better.)

Unless this torrent system gets better I give up.  Now off to downloading the 
old-fashioned way - FTP.  

<grumpy old man voice>

"Back in my day, we had to type ftp commands by hand, including bin and get.

I used to have to remember how to type anonymous.

 And we liked it!"

</ grumpy old man voice>

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