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bob brazie
October 29th, 2009, 11:48 PM
At the top of the forum page it says: When downloading Ubuntu 9.10 please consider using bittorrent to get your copy of Ubuntu.

What is "bittorrent" where is it and how do I use it?

Can you tell that I am new to this? <g>

Thanks in advance, Bob.

cariboo
October 29th, 2009, 11:52 PM
For more info on bittorrent have a look at this wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent). Transmission , a bittorrent client is installed by default.

I was going to give you a link, but the servers are really, really, really sloooooow, right now.

sisco311
October 29th, 2009, 11:54 PM
See the link in my signature.

or

http://releases.ubuntu.com/karmic/

or

http://torrent.ubuntu.com:6969/

wbee
October 30th, 2009, 12:01 AM
Bob,

A conventional download comes from a specific sight. Those who download do not share data and the download sight has a cut off number of downloads it can support at the same time.

In a torrent load,groups of users are connected to one another and organized into "swarms".

Those who have received one hundred percent of a file are labeled "seeders". Those who are receiving,(and sending) data are called "peers".(Some call those "leaches" but that is not very nice.)

In a torrent "swarm",you will be receiving data from people and also sending data to others.

The best torrent software I have found for Ubuntu is "Deluge".

The best torrent documentation I have found is for Utorrent.

The trick is that you must open a port exception through both your firewall and your modem/router.

The utorrent sight(again) has the best links to documentation to explain all this.

For example,today,I downloaded Ubuntu9.10 i386 Desktop. At one point,I was part of a swarm where five hundred persons were seeding and three hundred fifty were peering.

I seeded to a ratio of two to one,used the K3b software to "burn an image",and installed the operating system.

Thank you for asking,because torrents are the way to handle up and downloads,as everybody shares the capacity needed to do so.
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ajgreeny
October 30th, 2009, 01:02 AM
A big advantage of a bittorrent client is the way it checks that the big (690MB) file you downloaded is not corrupt in any way, so there is no possibility of a bad iso file at the end of a long download, which did happen to me once previously getting a ubuntu iso file. If any parts of the iso are found to be corrupt, the system just gets another little bit to replace the bad bit; it means you don't have to download the whole thing again.

It is also much, much faster in all downloads I have done, especially when a new iso has just appeared and lots of people are trying to download it direct from servers.

bob brazie
October 30th, 2009, 01:25 AM
Could someone give me a specific biiiorrent site to download the desktop i386 9.10 from?

Thanks. Bob.

sisco311
October 30th, 2009, 01:29 AM
Could someone give me a specific biiiorrent site to download the desktop i386 9.10 from?

Thanks. Bob.

the links are in my first post.


See the link in my signature.

or

http://releases.ubuntu.com/karmic/

or

http://torrent.ubuntu.com:6969/

dj-toonz
October 30th, 2009, 01:30 AM
Could someone give me a specific biiiorrent site to download the desktop i386 9.10 from?

Thanks. Bob.

Hope this helps

http://releases.ubuntu.com/9.10/ubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso.torrent

lovinglinux
October 30th, 2009, 02:03 AM
...and how do I use it?

See BitTorrent optimization and troubleshooting guide (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1259923).