F7 is working fine

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Thu Aug 23 18:06:07 UTC 2007


Andy Green wrote:
> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
>
>   
>>    Both I think. I just started d/l i86-64 version and it is staggering
>> along at 27 KBits/second which is about right for my DSL system. It is
>> around 250KB/second and faster one way or the other but forget which. I
>> am too far from the telephone office for the faster DSL. I will have the
>> iso file in 32 hours it says :-[
>>     
>
> You should cancel the download and download the .torrent file instead,
> and use that with bittorrent.  From a console (# means do it as root, $
> as normal user)
>
> # yum install bittorrent
>
> $ wget http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/torrents/Fedora-7-x86_64.torrent
> $ bittorrent-curses Fedora-7-x86_64.torrent
>
> Unless your ISP is detecting and trashing bittorrent traffic, after some
> time this should max out your downstream.
>
> -Andy
>
>   
    I think the current d/l is about as fast as it goes. It has been 
normal to wait days for a DVD size thing.

    Hope for no power outage :-)


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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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