On the ubuntu.com home page, if you click the download button for the desktop or server you are taken to a page such as http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download to select a location which has a "Begin Download" button.  Most people don't look to the right side which has a section for "Other Options" one of which is a link for torrents.  I used that on release day and got 2 .iso's in about 40 minutes.

On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 1:05 AM, der.hans <PLUGd@lufthans.com> wrote:

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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