Use rsync. I am not sure how much gain there is to be had but try using an older version as the seed file - should save at least a little. Creative use of head/tail with seed files and already downloaded portions can save a lot if the link drops out halfway.
Make sure you use the -P option (read "man rsync") e.g. "rsync -Pv --stats --bwlimit=2 filename ." wget has a similar option. BB (Before Broadband!) I set this for both wget and rsync in /etc/make.conf. wget will usually download faster on high quality connections than rsync, but overall, if you have a seed file, rsync wins hands down. The bandwidth option is useful if you still want to use the link whilst downloading. Both rsync and wget request chunks of the file, then wait an amount of time before getting the next chunk. This averages out to the required throughput, but some apps did not deal with this very well (p[arrallel scp downloads slowed to a crawl for instance, leaving a large part of the available bw unused. Best bet in this case is to try and find a local person with broadband who will download and burn to cd for you. I used to use a modem for gentoo for a few years and know what you are up against - but I think its worse for the binary distros as I found I was downloading whole CD's on a regular basis - and thats a whole lot worse than OO! BillK On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 07:49 -0600, Dale wrote: > Ernie Schroder wrote: > ...> > Well, this is what I have to worry about: ... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
