Jack Bailey wrote:
I am unable to use BitTorrent due to being behind a firewall. Does anyone have the 4.3 DVD image available for download?
Don't know about the rest of you guys, but for me, BitTorrent downloads are much slower than FTP. I was able to download the CDs at about 5-6 minutes each, the torrent took over 10 hours. I hereby cast a vote for the posting the DVD image. One image, or a set of files created with split(1).
you have a local problem on your end or a mis configured bittorrent client - look at this :
at time of release, the DVD torrents were seeding ( for x86_64, i386 and ia64 together ) at over 1.3 GiB/sec.
its only grown from there. And almost everyone who's commented on it - has said that they have been able to saturate their links with the torrent ( eg. one guy on irc was leeching at 35MiB/sec earlier in the day today ... )
I find it hard to believe that in general terms, ftp would offer much better performance.