Progress, but now...

[Joseph C. Lininger]

I've tried bittorrent. The major problem with it is that you can't get more than say 5 or 6 KBPS out of it. IN theory you could get more, but the problem is that it uses the bandwidth of people who are connected, and there just aren't that many people connected who aren't currently downloading something themselves and consuming their own bandwidth. Maybe it's better now, but that's how things were when I tried it. As for obtaining the images, I could provide them to anyone who wants them. I had them up on my ftp site for a while, but I took them down due to lack of interest.

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Joseph C. Lininger
jbahm at pcdesk.net

On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Gregory Nowak wrote:

> The asc files are just signatures.  I've just looked at
> ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu, and you're right, they don't have the isos
> there, my bad. Check out:
>
> ftp://mirror.pudas.net/slackware/slackware-9.1-iso/
>
> which has all 4 iso images, and no, it's not a U.S. site, but it will
> do, and from my own experience, it's pretty fast. I guess most people
> are using BitTorrent now, though don't ask me about that, cause I
> haven't used that download method myself yet.
>
> Greg
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 11:38:39PM -0500, Kyrath. (AKA Rob) wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> > I've been on this page before and I just checked it out again.  All I could
> > find on the USA and Canada sites were .iso.asc files.  Unless I am
> > completely under-estimating .asc files, since I really don't know what kind
> > of files they are, the file sizes that were in those .iso directories were
> > whey too small to be cd images.
> > -- Rob
>
>