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I've now downloaded the new ubuntu 3 times. Wasting bandwitdh as I go, just because mirror.ac.za does not support resume.

if there's a break in my internet, it immediately tries to resume, and on resume, mirror.ac.za reports success and that there's nothing to resume.... fun times.... I can now see why you junkies spend multiple gigs download **** like this
 
AcidRaZor said:
I've now downloaded the new ubuntu 3 times. Wasting bandwitdh as I go, just because mirror.ac.za does not support resume.

if there's a break in my internet, it immediately tries to resume, and on resume, mirror.ac.za reports success and that there's nothing to resume.... fun times.... I can now see why you junkies spend multiple gigs download **** like this
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It resumed for me: See the other thread, where the server had to reboot and my download crashed. Then I just resumed, and MD5 checked out at the end. What are you using to download? wget FTW
 
I'm on a slow connection and resumed a few times, in the end the md5 was correct, maybe your download manager can't handle big files?
 
AcidRaZor said:
I've now downloaded the new ubuntu 3 times. Wasting bandwitdh as I go, just because mirror.ac.za does not support resume
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The mirror was down for a few minutes last night due to a reboot but I've just resumed my download without a problem :confused:

Are you using FTP or HTTP? It could be that your ISPs transparent cache is mangling the traffic.

And besides... cut them a little slack. The mirror is uploading a *FULL* ISO every 4s and a couple of (major) ISPs are struggling badly under the load. The mirror is actually doing pretty well considering the amount of traffic its pushing out.
 
Aqua_lung said:
I'm on a slow connection and resumed a few times, in the end the md5 was correct, maybe your download manager can't handle big files?
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I've used normally HTTP download (via Firefox) and Filezilla (FTP with resume) both report the file 100% done and the server actively skips the resume command from what I can tell in Filezilla.

Now downloading it a 3rd time. Here's hoping my internet won't break
 
AcidRaZor said:
I've used normally HTTP download (via Firefox) and Filezilla (FTP with resume) both report the file 100% done and the server actively skips the resume command from what I can tell in Filezilla.

Now downloading it a 3rd time. Here's hoping my internet won't break
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get it from UCT servers?
 
AcidRaZor said:
I've used normally HTTP download (via Firefox) and Filezilla (FTP with resume) both report the file 100% done and the server actively skips the resume command from what I can tell in Filezilla.

Now downloading it a 3rd time. Here's hoping my internet won't break
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If you're on windows try "free download manager" or orbit, on linux I used Gwget.
 
I've never had a problem with mirror.ac.za. I can't thank tenet enough for providing it.
 
Its probably easier to drive to a University, walk into the computer department and tell one of the dorks to put Ubuntu 9.10 on a flash disk!

Winston FTW!
 
I torrented it, and am seeding till my ratio hits 1.0. Had no issues, and ISO passed the MD5 test.

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AcidRaZor said:
I've now downloaded the new ubuntu 3 times. Wasting bandwitdh as I go, just because mirror.ac.za does not support resume.

if there's a break in my internet, it immediately tries to resume, and on resume, mirror.ac.za reports success and that there's nothing to resume.... fun times.... I can now see why you junkies spend multiple gigs download **** like this
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So when you buy Windows you pay M$. When you get "free" Ubuntu you pay your ISP (or Telskum)? You gotta love South Africa, where even free software costs an arm and a leg. :p
 
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