BitTorrent hosting for Mandrake 9.1 ISO's
BitTorrent hosting for Mandrake 9.1 ISO's
Posted Mar 26, 2003 5:40 UTC (Wed) by raph (guest, #326)Parent article: Mandrake Linux 9.1 released
If you want the Mandrake 9.1 ISOs:
- Download and install BitTorrent
- Start this torrent
Joining the torrent is especially appreciated if you have good bandwidth and are not behind a NAT. In the early phases of the torrent, downloads will be a little slow (20kB/s), but it should pick up in a couple of hours. If you can leave your BitTorrent application open even after the download is complete, that would help even more.
Feel free to spread the word; the more people who join the torrent, the better it goes.
This can be seen as a trial run for the RedHat 9 ISO release.
Posted Mar 26, 2003 14:44 UTC (Wed)
by eyal (subscriber, #949)
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However the speed, at least for me, didn't start at 20kB/s and went up. Instead it started around 10, then dropped to 2-5, and from then on it's constantly chaging anywhere from 2 to 30. I'm not sure if this temporary or normal, and as I said it's faster than downloading from the overloaded servers, however adjust your expectations to more realistic figures. EZ.
Downloading as suggested with BitTorrent seems to be faster than "normal" download (even with a segmenting download manager), and the concept is great. BitTorrent hosting for Mandrake 9.1 ISO's