First of all, thanks Oliver for the link...apparently it's much more faster and stable then those on the blog...
Regarding the mirror, i do have more then A university near me...but i cant get in touch with the teachers in charge of these things...that's why i said i wanna buy a pc and turn it into a mirror :) It's like they know about mageia but dont wanna help... :( (bummer) :( Oh well...hope that once mageia becomes stable more and more people will turn to our side! (evil laugh) >:) Thanks again guys! :) *(ETA to finish download from ftp://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/Mageia/iso/cauldron/ = 47min average download speed 412 Kbps - not much, but it's stable...) :D* On 19 February 2011 00:35, Michael Scherer <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:44:34 +0200, Cazacu Bogdan wrote: > >> Ok...this is starting to be annoying... >> >> This is the 3rd day I'm trying to download mageia...all of the >> mirrors are to far away from me (still, the closest it the one from >> Prague)... apparently they all have the same problem...they're shuting >> my connection down (at the beginning I'm downloading with 500-600 >> Kpbs, but in time my connection gets down to 5-6 Kpbs!!!!!!!!!!!). I'm >> downloading again now, and, in close to 45 minutes, I've downloaded >> close to 29 Mb so far... >> > > I think there is 2 factors : > > - we didn't planned to have so much people interested by yet another linux > distribution, > especially when there is nothing special ( and no finished design ). I > guess we didn't say > loudly enough "this is not interesting, this is just to start the work" :). > I think we will > do better next time in term of planning, a area were we should definitly > improve. > > - it was not planned to have a mandriva mirror breakage the same day, > forcing lots of mandriva mirrors to download again 0.5 To of data from d-c > > See the graph for bandwidth : > http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/munin/distrib-coffee/distrib-coffee/ifqospkt_bond0.html > 1:1211 is the rsync traffic, and as you can see, there is a peak since > 14/02, and this reduced the > bandwith for 1:1212, the http/ftp traffic ( I have to read the qos script > written by Nanar to > have this information, do not search much on the graphic ) > > Hopefully, this will be better once everybody will have synced the missing > part. > > -- > Michael Scherer >
