On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 2:55 AM, Herbert Graf <
mailinglist4@...> wrote:
> > I am waiting for the FTP mirror (mirror.averse.net or mirror.pacific.net.au) to
> > be available anyway. I am not a fan of BitTorrent.
>
> Fan or not, it is by far the fastest way to get anything fast
> consistently these days.
Not for me. Bittorrent or other P2P service are rather slow for
me. Maybe the ISP is doing something here.
> Consider this, merely 9 hours after the release of 8.04, I had a copy on
> my machine, and the download only took 1h to complete (700MB).
> Considering how many thousands of people were trying to download it from
> "traditional" sources every single download server was completely
> inaccessible, yet torrents work BETTER the more people try to access it.
>
> I don't even bother with regular download sources anymore, torrents have
> consistently been faster.
>
For me the two mirrors I mentioned worked the best. There are
very fast. I can download single CD ubuntu within one hour,
sometimes much less than one hour. Sometimes it
can saturate my download link (8Mbps) Cable.
By the way, I think you still need access to the download server
anyway for Ubuntu updates.
Xiaofan
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