Well, there's so few going right now that I'm showing 38 days to get the DVD. My normal dnld from a mirror travels appx. 600Mb/sec. I'll wait until most of the U.S. goes home before I give up and use the normal download though. Here's hoping... -- Bill
--On Monday, December 17, 2007 5:10 PM -0500 "William L. Maltby" <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com> wrote:> Well, there's so few going right now that I'm showing 38 days to get the > DVD. My normal dnld from a mirror travels appx. 600Mb/sec. > > I'll wait until most of the U.S. goes home before I give up and use the > normal download though.Is there an issue with the tracker? I just restarted my CentOS 5.0 DVD torrent (I updated to 5.1 via yum) and am getting "connection refused" from the tracker. torrentinfo-console shows this as the tracker URL: <torrent.centos.org:6969/announce> The 5.0 DVD torrent can be found here: <mirrors.easynews.com//linux/centos/5.0/isos/i386/CentOS-5.0-i386-bin-DVD.torrent>
On Dec 17, 2007 5:16 PM, Kenneth Porter <shiva at sewingwitch.com> wrote:> --On Monday, December 17, 2007 4:58 PM -0800 centos at 911networks.com wrote: > > > Why use torrents? With torrents I get around 25Kb/sec. > > Sounds like something is throttling your torrent connection. Start by using > a non-standard torrent port to escape traffic shaping by naive throttles.I think the EFF was accusing Comcast of doing this. arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071128-eff-study-reveals-evidence-of-comcasts-bittorrent-interference.html> > > With places such as utah.edu [I am in North America] I got > > 320Kb/sec steady. It took me 3hr and a bit to download the 5.1 > > dvd. As far as I understand it, Utah and the other mirrors donated > > the bandwidth to the community. > > Torrents have the benefit of sharing the cost over many community > contributors. >Also don't forget that many mirrors offer rsync. If you rename your 5.0 DVD to the 5.1 version and do an rsync it will save lots of bandwidth. -- Robert Arkiletian Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada Fl_TeacherTool www3.telus.net/public/robark/Fl_TeacherTool C++ GUI tutorial www3.telus.net/public/robark
"William L. Maltby" <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com> wrote:>>At 07:40 EST (+5 UTC?) with most of the U.S still asleep, I've 8 and 6 peers connected and uploading for the 4.6 and 5.1 DVDs respectively. << As I write, I've had the torrent running for approximately 12 hours; I have 50 peers connected and am getting 26 KB/s download speed. I'm so excited. . . Best, --- Les Bell, RHCE, CISSP [lesbell.com.au] Tel: +61 2 9451 1144 FreeWorldDialup: 800909
"William L. Maltby" <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com> wrote:>>Sorry to hear that your getting so little support from the community. << Oh, I'm not complaining on that score; in fact, I'm not complaining at all. I just fired up BitTorrent to help out, and I figured I could use a 5.1 DVD anyway. Right now, my upload rate is higher than my download rate, so at least I'm helping to share the load. Best, --- Les Bell, RHCE, CISSP [lesbell.com.au] Tel: +61 2 9451 1144 FreeWorldDialup: 800909