Hi,
I tried to download opensuse12.3-KDE-live-dvd from software.opensuse.org: openSUSE 12.3 herunterladen
I was redirected to server Index of /, and downloading was a mess, speed about 15KiB/s, a lot of interruptions, after 10 hours and downloading about only the half I stopped it.
Is there a way to check out fast servers and choose them?
I did not find anything on opensuse-pages
My location is Portugal, I am remembering that there has been for opensuse a mirror in Portugal, MinhoUniversity something like this, what has been really quick., using a 3G-MobileBroadband, max. speed here 300Kbit/s, so download should be done in max 3hrs
Thanx for any advise
Martin
edit: this is the list bifi.unizar.es and it seems out of date
AFAIK download.opensuse.org alreay sends to the closest available mirror. Which may have been slowed down by the millions of portuguese downloads :D.
Here’s a list of the mirrors for 12.3 openSUSE Download Mirrors - 12.3
BTW, is torrent an option for you? I see over a thousand seeders on the KDE Live image.
Sorry to say that I just do not know how to handle this torrent stuff, never tried this.
All direct links only give a download like 15Kbit/s, just tried gwdg, rwh-halifax and some more, so download needs a day or more for live-dvd.
This never happened before, too much traffic?
Androtfl!rotfl! all 10 millions portuguese are loading opensuse, in time of crisis and troika-rules, no one can pay the microsoft-fare anymore…
Sorry for a double post…
Can anyone explain me this torrent-stuff?
I had a google-search, does not result, did not find any how-to-do
I can download a small iso.torrent, and what then? I try to open, right-click, left-click, ending in nowhere, maximum I see is that file opensuse12.3.download could not be openend, while it is not even downloaded.
Wow, why direct-http downloads are not working anymore?
On 2013-03-18 00:36, martinrehm wrote:
>
> Sorry for a double post…
> Can anyone explain me this torrent-stuff?
> I had a google-search, does not result, did not find any how-to-do
> I can download a small iso.torrent, and what then?
The instructions are at the opensuse.org download page.
Go to opensuse.org, click on “get it”, move down, look for “download help”:
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Download_help
There have a look at “5.2 Downloading via BitTorrent”.
I would recommend you use “5.3 Downloading via Metalinks” instead.
> I try to open,
> right-click, left-click, ending in nowhere, maximum I see is that file
> opensuse12.3.download could not be openend, while it is not even
> downloaded.
>
> Wow, why direct-http downloads are not working anymore?
They work, but you hit a mirror that is overloaded or not working
correctly. Which is why I recommend a metalink downloader, because it
chooses automatically one or several mirrors for maximizing speed.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
A quick intro
The torrent file you just downloaded is a description file with information about where in the world to start looking for the actual file you want, plus some information about the file and how it will be downloaded.
You simply import (add) the file to your torrent client app and wait. Typically your app will need some time to follow instructions and go find the other machines which will transfer pieces to you. Torrent gives you best performance and often does integrity checks continuously during the download which ensures your final copy should be good.
When you use an openSUSE system now (you forgot to explain what system you use for the downloading), I can tell you as KDE user what I do. I choosee the BitTorrent way on the download page, It then askes if it should open with Ktorrent, which I accept. Done.
On 2013-03-18 06:06, tsu2 wrote:
> Torrent gives
> you best performance and often does integrity checks continuously during
> the download which ensures your final copy should be good.
For best performance you need to twiddle your router settings. Or at
least you had.
On the other hand, it only gives good performance while there is a mass
of people using it, and your ISP is nice and does not throttle it out.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
Thank a lot for all the advices, it helped a lot, I did the download via Torrent using firefox-Browser, which seems to integrate this much better than opera, what I normally use.
Average download-rate was 60Kib/s, not so quick, but much better than via direct link.
Meanwhile I did a zypper dup on my tumbleweed-partition on old laptop ibmT23, as far as I can see runs everything right now ok.
Now I will do a fresh install of 12.3 on my T60, beside existing 12.2.