On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Barry Brimer wrote: > Quoting Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>: > > > Jack Bailey wrote: > > > > > >>> > > >>> I do believe that something is wrong with the setup. I get torrent > > >>> connection speeds that vary wildly from 10KB/sec to about 200KB/sec. FTP > > >>> gets me about 1380KB/sec. > > >>> > > >> > > >> surely, these are not centos DVD image torrents you are talking about > > >> here ? if they are - can you give me some time scales as to when you > > >> had this sort of a speed issue ? > > > > > > Yes, the DVD torrents. I started the DVD download last night about > > > 9:00PM. I went to bed at 3:00AM, with 5 hours, 20 minutes remaining of > > > download time remaining. This morning I checked the file modification > > > time which works out to a total download time of about 10 hours, 50 > > > minutes. Contrast this to downloading all 4 CDs in under 30 minutes. > > Would it be possible for whomever makes the DVD to provide a script to build the > DVD from the CD ISO images? That way, anyone who wants to make their own DVD > can do so. It is called mkdvdiso.sh and is in the build directory of centos mirrors :- http://mirror.centos.org/centos/build/ Regards Lance -- uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user.