[qubes-users] Re: Torrent Dowloads

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qubes-os-r2b2.torrent

Great! I hope some of the seeders will come up online.

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One month ago, I struggled to download R2B2 by any means, as the HTTP downloads would eventually time out for me and I couldn’t find any torrents. Finally, I came across Burnbit, which appears to turn HTTP downloads (they call them Web Seeds) into torrents on the fly (torrent file attached).

I am seeding both now.

(Attachment Qubes R2 Beta2 x86 64 DVD iso [Burnbit].torrent is missing)

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I assume you tried the sf.net downloads? Did you report this problem to
sf.net?

joanna.

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Sorry, Joanna, I didn’t report it. I am located in Australia which may be a factor, and tried all the sourceforge mirrors I think on Jul 12, 2013 - as I recall they all timed out and failed eventually. On the other hand, the next day Burnbit was the quickest download I can remember.

Here’s the relevant browser history:
Jul 12, 2013
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qubesos/files/Qubes-R2-Beta2-x86_64-DVD.iso/download?use_mirror=jaist&r=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.qubes-os.org%2Ftrac%2Fwiki%2FQubesDownloads&use_mirror=jaist

http://sourceforge.net/projects/qubesos/files/Qubes-R2-Beta2-x86_64-DVD.iso/download?use_mirror=superb-dca3

http://sourceforge.net/projects/qubesos/files/Qubes-R2-Beta2-x86_64-DVD.iso/download?use_mirror=jaist&r=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.burnbit.com%2Ftorrent%2F247583%2FQubes_R2_Beta2_x86_64_DVD_iso&use_mirror=jaist

http://sourceforge.net/projects/qubesos/files/Qubes-R2-Beta2-x86_64-DVD.iso/download?use_mirror=jaist

http://sourceforge.net/projects/qubesos/files/latest/download

http://sourceforge.net/projects/qubesos/files/latest/download#

http://sourceforge.net/projects/qubesos/files/Qubes-R1-x86_64-DVD.iso/download?use_mirror=internode

http://sourceforge.net/projects/qubesos/files/Qubes-R2-Beta2-x86_64-DVD.iso/download?use_mirror=garr

http://sourceforge.net/projects/qubesos/files/Qubes-R2-Beta2-x86_64-DVD.iso.asc/download

http://sourceforge.net/projects/qubesos/files/Qubes-R2-Beta2-x86_64-DVD.iso/download

http://sourceforge.net/projects/qubesos/files/Qubes-R2-Beta2-x86_64-DVD.iso/download#

http://sourceforge.net/projects/qubesos/files/Qubes-R2-Beta2-x86_64-DVD.iso/download?use_mirror=hivelocity

Jul 13, 2013
http://burnbit.com/torrent/247583/Qubes_R2_Beta2_x86_64_DVD_iso

Do you think there is value in me reporting this now?

I am currently seeding both torrents in this thread, and the Burnbit one has been active (uploaded 231.4MB), while the other is currently active (uploaded 1.88GB so far). I am on 100Mbps cable.

Cheers,
James

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Personally I wouldn't heavily depend on sf.net anyway:

* It's overloaded already. The site and file downloads are slow. I'm not comfortable with downloading a 2 Gb file without any donation.

* download resuming on connection loss is better done for torrents than for HTTP.

I think the torrent technology "just fits" for large file downloads.

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No, I wouldn't bother now.

joanna.