pieter wrote:First I want to thank you all for the quick and positive response. I have never been in a forum where help was so fast and useful. This has been my first complete immersion into Linux. Ultimate really rocks but I need a lot of education to fully appreciate it. Your help has given me a lot of confidence that I am not alone.
Sorry for calling you Bigdaddy3, DaddyX3.
I am not going to try to re-download Ultimate but do updates and tweaking to see if this resolves any glitches.
I will definitely use a download accelerator. Theeman I really am curious about those pipes. Question, are you talking about breaking a download into sections or are you saying you are combining two or more connections to a source?
I repeat this is really exciting switching Oses and it is definitely going a lot better then I expected.
When I was on satellite, I could use IE at the time and download 2 files each file came in at 70kbps, I got the bright Idea use a download accelerator which scours the net for mirrors of the file you are attempting to download and hits multiple sources (mirrors if you will), we have 13 mirrors. lets say you own the pro edition of download accelerator it will hit 10 of the 13 mirrors each downloading a chunk of the iso and at the end merging it back into 1 file. you would have the file ideally at 700kbps not 70, and yes it will resume it is a genius piece of software, it is also smart enough to see well you are not getting the full 70 from this mirror and will search for a faster mirror. Initially it bases this off ping time.
I do give credit to the programmer of it, it was a dream come true. I suggest trying to download a bunch of files from m$ they can afford a phat pipe to serve your needs if multiple files come in at the same speed as 1 did you are set, and you will thank me for shedding light to your situation.
This is to Cab, I try to keep my posts to a minimum, don't want to surpass some of my admin
The term you want to look up is "load balancing linux", I would also like to bring to your attention a hardware solution they were over $300, then for the cheepest. *nix will do this for you for free.Wish you both luck, especially you pieter, Cab already downloads @ 2,000 kbps( 2Megabytes per sec. not megabit), he is greedy.
TheeMahn
