Downloading core3

[Gerry Tool]

linux r wrote:

>On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 14:16:10 -0600, Gerry Tool <gstool at earthlink.net> wrote:
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>>Ken Barber wrote:
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>>>On Tuesday 09 November 2004 10:54 am, John Aldrich wrote:
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>>>>Are there any other torrents available for downloading FC3? The one at
>>>>linux.duke.edu doesn't seem to be working for me...
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>>>Try combing through the comments on the Slashdot article yesterday (I'm almost
>>>done downloading so I haven't looked).
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>>>When FC2 was released, that is how I found a decent torrent server.
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>>>Ken
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>You can also just test a few mirrors until you find one that is
>downloading at a good rate and then switch to an ftp program (like
>gftp) to download it directly.  I found that FoxFire got confused at
>the end of a very long DVD download and I had to start over.  Still, I
>had the  DVD and had finished installing by yesterday evening. Or,
>perhaps you have a dial-up con
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>I am having better luck with the Ireland mirrors than anything in my
>time zone (eastern).  I also had trouble with mozilla ff towards the
>end of a dl.  Is gftp faster than a 'normal' download ?   worth
>investigating...
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I don't think there is any speed benefit, but I have never had a 
reliability issue using gftp whereas browser downloads, even using 
ftp:// as the protocol rather than http:// have frequently aborted.