On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:45 PM, Jonothon Nihill
<jonothon.nihill(a)gmail.com> wrote:
not to do with yahoo, I dont use it. but for any of you who want to
download
distros give bit torrent a try I've downloaded many a distro with it.
~Jon
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Kevanf1 <kevanf1(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 26/02/2008, Andrew Edwards <edwards.andrew(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > > You on plus net too Kev?
> > > I get some strange things here. Tried twice to d'load a distro the
> > > other day, each time it got to 500MB the rate dropped to 20kB/sec
then
> > > failed. Kris got it for me but then threw the CD away so I never did
> > > get to try it!
> >
> >
> > star downloader - download in chunks of whatever size you want, and
> > it's freeware... for the windows though
> >
>
> GET OUT!!!! Andy ;-) *please note the grin*
>
> Actually, I used to have exactly that happen, Stuart. It was always
> with Opera though. I haven't seen any downloads do it for a long time
> now. The thing with Yahoo was that the page would start to load but
> then it looked awful. If I tried it with Opera (Windows or Linux) it
> loaded smoothly. Only Yahoo too not Google. Very odd....
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Though that is a sound suggestion, Jonothon, I must point out that
some broadband providers choke bittorrent traffic, additionally.. it
can sometimes be a slow process when there aren't many peers seeding
the content to you. I would recommend a Firefox plugin called
DownThemAll, a free and OSS download manager that integrates
seamlessly with Firefox.
Though don't just dismiss Bittorrent.
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