On Thursday 11 November 2004 02:42 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: > On Wednesday 10 November 2004 10:13 pm, Eric Scott wrote: > > I'm quite unimpressed with the speed I'm getting from the mirrors for > > Mandrake 10.0 Official via FTP. �Anybody know of a particularly good > > mirror? �Or a bittorrent/jigbo download like there is for Debian? �I > > tried to download 10 earlier with no success (20KB/s download didn't cut > > it for me), and I'm now downloading the testing version of Debian to > > tinker with instead (Gettin' my fulll bandwidth from them, via FTP too). > > I always check a mirror by FTPing with Konqueror to see if the site has a > decent download speed. There are some real dogs out there. > > Even though I am on the Pacific Coast of North America, my best downloads > come from European sites, and one American one.
I always find that I get the best download speeds from mirrors that are located in a area of the world where it is the middle of the night. For instance, if I am in the GMT -5 (New York) timezone, I get the best speed from the European mirrors in the evening, and the US west coast mirrors in the morning. -- /g
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