DVD download
Robert L Cochran
cochranb at speakeasy.net
Sat Mar 25 14:02:58 UTC 2006
If you are talking about the FC5 downloads....why not use rsync or wget?
You need to do this on software capable of downloading files greater
than 2 Gb in size. On my Fedora Core 4 x86_64 system, I've successfully
pulled down DVDs using both rsync and wget.
I never use http downloads for large files.
If I were on a Microsoft Windows XP system, I'd use the built-in ftp
client. I've never tried doing that with the DVD but it should be no
trouble.
I've noticed that Bittorrent has changed lately and the download speeds
are awful. All I can say to the Bittorrent faithful who would claim my
networking skills suck is that if I use rsync, I can download a DVD in
about 8 hours. If I use Bittorrent, that same DVD takes 36 hours.
Bob Cochran
David McCormick wrote:
> I have tried to download the DVD iso images several times and every
> time I do it the progress bar on Firefox goes to the point that it is
> completely downloaded and then starts in reverse showing a negative
> speed and the total mg's of content starts getting smaller. What can
> be causing this?
>
> David
>
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