[ale] trouble downloading iso images

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Tue Dec 11 21:38:45 EST 2007


Don't try downloading it on Comcast using bit torrent. The download will
hand because Comcast will play a man-in-the-middle attack and send a
rest signal and kill the download. You will need to just get the plain
is from a direct download.

I love Speakeasy DSL. 

On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 14:43 -0500, Daniel Howard wrote:
> I've been trying to download the iso CD ROM images for K12LTSP 7.0 on a 
> P4 Fedora box that used to download iso images fine before, but now 
> hangs after 50-70 MBytes of downloading.  There's over 150 GB of free 
> space on the HDD.  Thought it might be Comcast limiting me, but tried it 
> on my latest Windoz box with dual core CPU and it works fine, even twice 
> the download speed (200 kB/s instead of 100 kB/s).  I also tried to do a 
> software update on the Fedora box and it says it can't do it due to a 
> network connection possibly being out, but I can surf the web OK on it.
> 
> Any ideas?  Daniel
> 
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