BitTorrent hosting for Mandrake 9.1 ISO's [LWN.net]

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.

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BitTorrent hosting for Mandrake 9.1 ISO's

Posted Mar 26, 2003 14:44 UTC (Wed) by eyal (subscriber, #949) [Link]

Downloading as suggested with BitTorrent seems to be faster than "normal" download (even with a segmenting download manager), and the concept is great.

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.