Am 24. Apr, 2009 schwätzte Chris Gehlker so:

> It seems to take forever. It is much quicker just to download the .iso
> and install from scratch.

Yeah, the mirrors are swamped the week after a release.

Have you tried apt-torrent or apt-p2p?

http://www.camrdale.org/apt-p2p/

http://debtorrent.alioth.debian.org/

I haven't yet tried either, but plan to set up at least one of them for a
test spin.

I've been wanting packages via a torrent-like setup for a long time, but
hadn't noticed those packages.

ciao,

der.hans
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