Larry Stotler wrote:
On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Sam Clemens
wrote: I don't know what you two are complaining about. The full install DVD's ARE available via FTP/HTTP.
Yes, they are available from mirrors, but there were no links to the mirrors on the main site. They've only just changed it to allow you to download the dvds by http. Before it was bittorrent only. I have never gotten the max download speed that FTP will give me using bittorrent. When I downloaded beta2 from the mirror provided in this thread I got 350+ the whole time. Never ever gotten anywhere near that by bittorrent.
It all depends on how many other people are on the torrent at the moment. When downloading the 10.3 DVD's, the torrent was substantially faster than the FTP (and more importantly, if the download crash, bittorrent software recovers all of the data downloaded, whereas FTP/HTTP doesn't recognize what has already come in. The big problem with light/moderately downloaded material is that a few people using FTP seriously detracts from the speed of the torrent...which pushes more people to the FTP...vicious circle, and soon you have a bunch of people hitting the FTP at not-too-great speeds, who, if they were ALL on the torrent, would be getting great speeds AND the suse server wouldn't be getting beat up. It's too bad we can't make a protocol that forcibly transfers a large number of downloaders from FTP to the torrent. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org