Re: DVD download

If you are talking about the FC5 downloads....why not use rsync or wget? 
You need to do this on software capable of downloading files greater 
than 2 Gb in size. On my Fedora Core 4 x86_64 system, I've successfully 
pulled down DVDs using both rsync and wget.

I never use http downloads for large files.

If I were on a Microsoft Windows XP system, I'd use the built-in ftp 
client. I've never tried doing that with the DVD but it should be no 
trouble.

I've noticed that Bittorrent has changed lately and the download speeds 
are awful. All I can say to the Bittorrent faithful who would claim my 
networking skills suck is that if I use rsync, I can download a DVD in 
about 8 hours. If I use Bittorrent, that same DVD takes 36 hours.

Bob Cochran


David McCormick wrote:

> I have tried to download the DVD iso images several times and every 
> time I do it the progress bar on Firefox goes to the point that it is 
> completely downloaded and then starts in reverse showing a negative 
> speed and the total mg's of content starts getting smaller.  What can 
> be causing this?
>
> David
>