[Live-demo] torrent for live demo 4.0.1

[maning sambale]

Dear Alex,

I'm in the Philippines, South East Asia.  I just used the URL from the
download graphic live.osgeo.org.  It scanned several links and then
landed to the osprey mirror.

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:
> Are you in Europe? Did you manually pick the mirror or did you click on
> the big blue download graphic on live.osgeo.org?
>
> I'd like to work this out so we can better optimize the downloads for
> the next release.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
> On 03/16/2011 06:37 PM, maning sambale wrote:
>> This is the mirror:
>> http://osprey.ucdavis.edu/downloads/osgeo/gisvm/4.0.1/osgeolive-4.0.1.iso
>>
>> But never mind my inquiry, I ran the download overnight and it was
>> finished in 8 hours.
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:03 AM, Alex Mandel
>> <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:
>>> On 03/16/2011 06:22 AM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> Could you please specify which mirror you are using?
>>>> These days there is lots of traffic due to development of the new
>>>> version of the dvd.
>>>>
>>>> Please try:
>>>>
>>>> http://aiolos.survey.ntua.gr/gisvm/4.0.1/
>>>>
>>>> Angelos
>>>>
>>>> On 03/16/2011 02:08 PM, maning sambale wrote:
>>>>> This was discussed before, are there any torrent available?  On our
>>>>> slow connection, wget tells me it would take 3 days to complete the
>>>>> download.  I hope to test the live-dvd for a training session.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> There are actually 4 mirrors for 4.0.1. 2 of them in Europe. The main
>>> download links should have picked the closest one to you.
>>> http://live.osgeo.org/download.html
>>>
>>> So I'm also curious which mirror you selected. Also downloading the mini
>>> version is more than 1 GB smaller and the recommended option on a
>>> limited connection.
>>>
>>> Torrents are possible but in the past not enough people were on them to
>>> make them worth it, would actually be slower.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Alex
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>>
>>
>>
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