[TriLUG] Downloading Ubuntu

[Jason Tower]

i found last night that stopping the torrent and restarting would 
dramatically change my download speed, presumably because i would 
connect to different peers.  at peak i was getting about 120KB/s.

Rick DeNatale wrote:
> So, since today is Breezy Badger day, and since I'm going to need to
> rebuild my laptop after the hard drive died anyway, I decided to
> download the isos.  I figured that bittorent might do well since the
> files should be pretty popular so there should be quite a few peers to
> share with.
> 
> As I type this I'm about 2:30 into downloading the i386 install ISO
> with another 2:30 estimated to go.
> 
> I'm also downloading the live-cd which started about 5 minutes later
> and has 1:40 estimated to go.
> 
> I'm wondering if any other tri-luggers were doing the same and what
> kind of performance they were seeing.
> 
> I'll probably also download the kubuntu breezy isos as well, although
> I intend to install ubuntu and then apt-get the kubuntu additions. 
> Unlike some others (Tanner?) I don't mind having gnome as well as kde
> installed.
> 
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> Rick DeNatale
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