When I read this a couple of minutes ago, I set up Vuze (formerly Azureus) -- estimated less than 10 minutes, currently 1.28MB/s, with less than 1.5 min remaining (and I don't think the previous estimate was 10 min ago). Feels much faster than I expected.
--Don Ellis On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Robert Citek <[email protected]>wrote: > > Here's my script for downloading via bittorrent: > > tors=" > http://releases.ubuntu.com/9.10/ubuntu-9.10-alternate-amd64.iso.torrent > http://releases.ubuntu.com/9.10/ubuntu-9.10-alternate-i386.iso.torrent > http://releases.ubuntu.com/9.10/ubuntu-9.10-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent > http://releases.ubuntu.com/9.10/ubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso.torrent > http://releases.ubuntu.com/9.10/ubuntu-9.10-server-amd64.iso.torrent > http://releases.ubuntu.com/9.10/ubuntu-9.10-server-i386.iso.torrent > " > wget $tors > rtorrent *.torrent > > I set it up in a screen session and am now just waiting. Download > speeds are ok, but not great (<20KB/s each). You'd think with a large > number of simultaneous downloaders, speeds would be faster. Maybe I > haven't set up sharing correctly. > > Regards, > - Robert > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Mike Bigalke <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I thought about trying to download 9.10 via bit torrent because I'm > moving > > around so much today. > > > > However, after I added the torrent, I could get no peers..... hmmmmm.... > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
