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Use rsync. I am not sure how much gain there is to be had but try using |
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an older version as the seed file - should save at least a little. |
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Creative use of head/tail with seed files and already downloaded |
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portions can save a lot if the link drops out halfway. |
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Make sure you use the -P option (read "man rsync") e.g. "rsync -Pv |
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--stats --bwlimit=2 filename ." wget has a similar option. BB (Before |
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Broadband!) I set this for both wget and rsync in /etc/make.conf. wget |
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will usually download faster on high quality connections than rsync, but |
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overall, if you have a seed file, rsync wins hands down. |
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The bandwidth option is useful if you still want to use the link whilst |
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downloading. Both rsync and wget request chunks of the file, then wait |
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an amount of time before getting the next chunk. This averages out to |
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the required throughput, but some apps did not deal with this very well |
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(p[arrallel scp downloads slowed to a crawl for instance, leaving a |
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large part of the available bw unused. |
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Best bet in this case is to try and find a local person with broadband |
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who will download and burn to cd for you. I used to use a modem for |
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gentoo for a few years and know what you are up against - but I think |
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its worse for the binary distros as I found I was downloading whole CD's |
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on a regular basis - and thats a whole lot worse than OO! |
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BillK |
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On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 07:49 -0600, Dale wrote: |
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> Ernie Schroder wrote: |
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> ...> |
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> Well, this is what I have to worry about: |
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