Download FC3 by CD via bittorent

[Jeff Vian]

On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 01:19, Nifty Hat Mitch wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 06:00:33PM +0700, Philippe wrote:
> 
> > 
> > First time using bittorent .. on a dialup. I will not tell you how long
> > I need to download FC3 :-) ... but this is not the point.
> 
> Philippe,
> 
> I am a fan of bittorrent but on a dialup you are not likely to
> contribute to to the torrent in ways that you might expect.  Perhaps
> limit the number of clients your serve and limit upload bandwidth if
> you must use bittorrent.  There is no reason to permit 30+ upload
> connections to your box.
> 
>    $ netstat -an | grep 6[0-9][0-9][0-9] | grep ^tcp
> 
> If I was still on a dialup I would use wget or curl to 
> pull down the image.
> 
> Both curl and wget have ways to continue a download (reget)
> in case you are disconnected.  RTFM....
> 
> Both curl and wget can give you control over the specific ISO
> image you are downloading.  
> 

I use ncftp as well and it automatically resumes on a partial download.

> This way your and your neighbors can help each other by downloading
> one ISO each and help each other.
> 
> bittorrent (and rsync) can double check and finish downloading partial
> wget/ curl/ ftp download files.  The reverse is not true AFAIK.
> 
> 
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