Mike McMullin wrote:
On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 19:24 -0700, kai wrote:
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>
I'm hoping to have better luck with KTorrent than you have had. I tried Azureus, but it bombed at the start with an error message I had never seen before. It did however get the add-on /cd no problems, so I don't know what's wrong, I'm using the same .torrent file and the same destination folders.
Check Azureus home page to get support. They have a very nice FAQ/wiki.
-- Rui Santos http://www.ruisantos.com/