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On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 18:52 +0100, Andy Green wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Somebody in the thread at some point said:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Both I think. I just started d/l i86-64 version and it is staggering</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> along at 27 KBits/second which is about right for my DSL system. It is</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> around 250KB/second and faster one way or the other but forget which. I</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> am too far from the telephone office for the faster DSL. I will have the</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> iso file in 32 hours it says :-[</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">You should cancel the download and download the .torrent file instead,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">and use that with bittorrent. From a console (# means do it as root, $</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">as normal user)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"># yum install bittorrent</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">$ wget <A HREF="http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/torrents/Fedora-7-x86_64.torrent">http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/torrents/Fedora-7-x86_64.torrent</A></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">$ bittorrent-curses Fedora-7-x86_64.torrent</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Unless your ISP is detecting and trashing bittorrent traffic, after some</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">time this should max out your downstream.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">-Andy</FONT>
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I did a network install and that worked like a charm. It only downloads what you want installed.<BR>
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One recommendation: use FTP rather than HTTP. I think all the requests coming in quickly to the mirror site were interpreted by their firewall as some kind of DOS attack, so part way into the install my access to the mirror would be blocked. I tried several mirrors. It worked the first time when I used FTP access to the mirror.<BR>
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