CentOS - Sep 2010 - Anyone Having Any Luck Downloaing the DVD ISO?

I've been trying for 2 weeks to download the dvd iso torrent... Shows a ton
of seeders, few leechers, but very poor performance.. (I'm correctly setup
for torrents and get fast downloads normally) Only like 4% downloaded and
crawling. I've tried the trackers from every one of the mirror sites. I
can't use the net install because the systems I am installing are on a
closed network.

Anyone have any ideas where else to get this or any suggestions?
Thx,
R
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On 05/09/10 23:01, Chuck wrote:
> Anyone have any ideas where else to get this or any suggestions?
What about Mirrorservice.org & Rsync?

At Sun, 5 Sep 2010 15:01:06 -0700 CentOS mailing list <centos at
centos.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> I've been trying for 2 weeks to download the dvd iso torrent... Shows a
ton
> of seeders, few leechers, but very poor performance.. (I'm correctly
setup
> for torrents and get fast downloads normally) Only like 4% downloaded and
> crawling. I've tried the trackers from every one of the mirror sites. I
> can't use the net install because the systems I am installing are on a
> closed network.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas where else to get this or any suggestions?
I just did a normal download using wget and downloaded it just fine. 
Here is the shell script I used:

#!/bin/sh
host=http://mirror.clarkson.edu/centos/5.5/isos/i386/
mount -v /distrostemp
#wget -c -nv -P /distrostemp/ ${host}CentOS-5.5-i386-LiveCD.iso
#wget -c -nv -P /distrostemp/ ${host}CentOS-5.5-i386-bin-1of7.iso
#wget -c -nv -P /distrostemp/ ${host}CentOS-5.5-i386-bin-2of7.iso
#wget -c -nv -P /distrostemp/ ${host}CentOS-5.5-i386-bin-3of7.iso
#wget -c -nv -P /distrostemp/ ${host}CentOS-5.5-i386-bin-4of7.iso
#wget -c -nv -P /distrostemp/ ${host}CentOS-5.5-i386-bin-5of7.iso
#wget -c -nv -P /distrostemp/ ${host}CentOS-5.5-i386-bin-6of7.iso
#wget -c -nv -P /distrostemp/ ${host}CentOS-5.5-i386-bin-7of7.iso
wget -c -nv -P /distrostemp/ ${host}CentOS-5.5-i386-bin-DVD.iso
wget -c -nv -P /distrostemp/ ${host}CentOS-5.5-i386-netinstall.iso
wget -c -nv -P /distrostemp/ ${host}md5sum.txt
wget -c -nv -P /distrostemp/ ${host}md5sum.txt.asc
wget -c -nv -P /distrostemp/ ${host}sha1sum.txt
wget -c -nv -P /distrostemp/ ${host}sha1sum.txt.asc
umount -v /distrostemp

and 

#!/bin/sh
host=http://mirror.clarkson.edu/centos/5.5/isos/x86_64/
mount -v /distrostemp
#wget -c -nv -P /distrostemp/ ${host}CentOS-5.5-x86_64-LiveCD.iso
#wget -c -nv -P /distrostemp/ ${host}CentOS-5.5-x86_64-bin-1of8.iso
#wget -c -nv -P /distrostemp/ ${host}CentOS-5.5-x86_64-bin-2of8.iso
#wget -c -nv -P /distrostemp/ ${host}CentOS-5.5-x86_64-bin-3of8.iso
#wget -c -nv -P /distrostemp/ ${host}CentOS-5.5-x86_64-bin-4of8.iso
#wget -c -nv -P /distrostemp/ ${host}CentOS-5.5-x86_64-bin-5of8.iso
#wget -c -nv -P /distrostemp/ ${host}CentOS-5.5-x86_64-bin-6of8.iso
#wget -c -nv -P /distrostemp/ ${host}CentOS-5.5-x86_64-bin-7of8.iso
#wget -c -nv -P /distrostemp/ ${host}CentOS-5.5-x86_64-bin-8of8.iso
#wget -c -nv -P /distrostemp/ ${host}CentOS-5.5-x86_64-bin-DVD-1of2.iso
wget -c -nv -P /distrostemp/ ${host}CentOS-5.5-x86_64-bin-DVD-2of2.iso
wget -c -nv -P /distrostemp/ ${host}CentOS-5.5-x86_64-netinstall.iso
wget -c -nv -P /distrostemp/ ${host}md5sum.txt
wget -c -nv -P /distrostemp/ ${host}md5sum.txt.asc
wget -c -nv -P /distrostemp/ ${host}sha1sum.txt
wget -c -nv -P /distrostemp/ ${host}sha1sum.txt.asc
umount -v /distrostemp


I ran it overnight (I did the 32-bit ISOs as three successive nights and
the 64-bit ISOs over 4 nights).  I did this on the local library's 'high
speed' (900mhz wireless) link (about 1-2 mbits/sec).


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> R
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On 09/05/2010 05:01 PM, Chuck informed us:
>
> I've been trying for 2 weeks to download the dvd iso torrent... Shows 
> a ton of seeders, few leechers, but very poor performance.. (I'm 
> correctly setup for torrents and get fast downloads normally) Only 
> like 4% downloaded and crawling. I've tried the trackers from every 
> one of the mirror sites. I can't use the net install because the 
> systems I am installing are on a closed network.
>
> Anyone have any ideas where else to get this or any suggestions?
I tried the tracker from the kernel.org site just minutes ago using the 
Ktorrent client.
After a couple minutes, my stats looked like:

    Leechers: 10 (125) Average Up Speed:     2.1 KB/s
    Seeders:  40 (900) Average Down Speed: 560.7 KB/s

I blew off the d/l 'cause I already have a DVD but that would work out
to a bit less that 2 hours for  the DVD image. That's pretty much wide
open for my DSL connection.

Have you tried any of the speed tests available? That should eliminate 
your torrent client as a suspect.  Here are two 2 test sites. The first 
requires flash; the second uses java, often has requests in queue but 
gives a lot of network information.   I have both bookmarked.
http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/
http://miranda.ctd.anl.gov:7123/

Good luck!

On 09/05/2010 11:01 PM, Chuck wrote:
> I've been trying for 2 weeks to download the dvd iso torrent... Shows a
> ton of seeders, few leechers, but very poor performance.. (I'm
correctly
> setup for torrents and get fast downloads normally) Only like 4%
> downloaded and crawling. I've tried the trackers from every one of the
> mirror sites. I can't use the net install because the systems I am
> installing are on a closed network.
>
Did you try the .torrent file from mirror.centos.org ? I just checked 
and am able to saturate a 100mbps link here in the UK, and a 50 mbps 
link in the US with the c5.5-x86_64 torrent.

- KB

I don't quite understand why all this fuss about some DVD ISOs...

At least the Portuguese mirrors work very nicely...
Here's an example:

ftp://ftp.di.uminho.pt/pub/centos/5.5/

Regards