On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 01:51 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Why would you need to use torrent because your connection is slow? My connection is slow, and precisely because of that, I do not use torrents! I use aria2c instead.
And yes, of course, having a slow internet connection, no matter the download method, is one reason not to use a rolling release, or use factory assiduously. It takes me 13 hours to download a DVD at full speed and doing nothing else in the entire house. Realistically, it takes me about two days. So I usually don't use factory till RC time...
Let me jump in that. If you want to download 4,3 GByte, you are going to download 4,3GB, no matter what tool you use... If you have a limited down-link, and don't want to sqeeze out other traffic for some time, you have multiple options: - use rsync, and specify the download speed - use tc, and limited all traffic from a specific URL or port Main advantage of torrent is, that the transferred blocks are small, so if a download get interrupted, you can continue without any loss of time I know other tools also have a "resume" option, but not all function properly. Other advantage of torrent is, that it reduces the load of the (initial) seeder. But if you do the download from a nearby university (instead of a normal hoster) speed or bandwidth are hardly of any concern to them. But i know the feeling, having downloaded an iso image over an 64Kbit link in the bad old days (and confronted with the telco-bill).. hw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org