Neorion Posted March 16, 2004 Report Share Posted March 16, 2004 Hey all, Where would anyone recommend for a Mandrake 10.0 community download from a reliable fast site? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzylizard Posted March 16, 2004 Report Share Posted March 16, 2004 Only one word to answer that - bittorrent Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted March 16, 2004 Report Share Posted March 16, 2004 Seeing how it all depends on where your at and how everything is routed anyway... and also, peeps don't like to publicise there "fav" servers and /. them to death, here's what i would do. Make a list of possible candidates and just start the download. After a few seconds you will know if its moving fast enough or not. IF not, just kill it and move on to the next one. BTW: a cool feature with bittorrent is that you CAN NOT get a bad download. It will verify the download as it progresses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdion81 Posted March 17, 2004 Report Share Posted March 17, 2004 I tried the torrent listed on Mandrakes mirror list and was getting crap (.1 k/s) for speeds. I know its not my configuration or network connection as I can get other things at about 150k to 300k/sec Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted March 17, 2004 Report Share Posted March 17, 2004 torrents are like that, jdion81. they depend on other people sharing, and the speed of their internet connection. if you let it run, however, your speeds will eventually increase (usually when you're not looking, it seems lol - or atleast for me that's what happened :) ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chin808 Posted March 17, 2004 Report Share Posted March 17, 2004 I got each iso in about an hour for each cd... I used an American FTP source with my 4.4mb cable connection btw... Im in Florida Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtweidmann Posted March 17, 2004 Report Share Posted March 17, 2004 I had problems with BitTorrent being very slow, but after following some tips on the MDK Club website its gone freom 3K to 50K. Open ports 6881-6999 on your firewall and forward them to the computer where bittorrent is running. The forwarding bit only really applies if, like me, you sitting behind a router. If you prefer a FTP site my advice is to find one in the same country as yourself they tend to be a bit better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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