Install problem (Fedora 20-32bit

[David]

On 6/8/2014 6:13 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 06/09/14 05:49, David wrote:
>> His complaint was that his download did not complete. A torrent would be
>> a complete restart. And a torrent, at this late date, would/could be
>> slow since the possibility od acctive 'seeds' would/could be small.
> 
> Just for the heck of it, I'm re-downloading the torrent using the torrent file on fedoraproject.org.  I'm getting 2.8 Mb/sec and expect the dl to be done in 30 minutes.


I am impressed Ed. Most, in my experience, torrents die quickly due to
lack of seeds. I gave up on torrents when I upgraded from telephone
lines and 56k modems. I have no idea but many, many yeaRS AGO,


>> And, IMO, since he can not complete, or resume, an oridinary d/l -- you
>> expect him to preform a torrent d/l? God luck with that.
> 
> A dl by torrent is generally better since you're getting data from multiple sources via multiple paths over the internet.  A ftp/http download is from a single source along a single path.  More susceptible to a failure.
> 
> Also, FWIW, when you do a wget on the DVD via fedoraproject you actually get mirror.  I just tried it and I get a mirror that is very close to me here in Taiwan.  Yet, I'm getting only 25Kb/s and the download is expected to take 2Days.
> 

Ed... you are a great guy. But? What info you are offering him APPEARS
TO BE beyond his knowledge. IMO.
-- 

  David