Yes, I suggest BitTorrent as well. I'm seeding ;)<br><br>I have noticed however that updating via apt-get or Synaptic isn't working, on fresh installs and updates on all my computers.<br><br>Is that what you mean by the downloads not working?<br> <br>Norman<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Daniel Mons <<a href="mailto:daniel.mons@iinet.net.au">daniel.mons@iinet.net.au</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d"><br> Tim Neill wrote:<br> > is anybody else having trouble getting the downloads to work for Hardy?<br> <br> </div>Ubuntu gets more and more popular with each release.  Expect all mirrors<br> worldwide to be utterly hammered for at least the next few days.<br> <br> My suggestion is to grab it via bittorrent:<br> <br> <a href="http://torrent.ubuntu.com:6969/" target="_blank">http://torrent.ubuntu.com:6969/</a><br> <br> BitTorrent as a protocol increases aggregate bandwidth as demand<br> increases.  It solves it's own problem of delivering bandwidth to<br> high-demand networks, versus static http/ftp servers which crumble under<br> high load.<br> <br> I used BitTorrent to grab all 6 CDs (desktop, server and alternate in<br> i386 and x86-64 flavours) today in just a few hours on my DSL<br> connection.  There are many thousands of seeds out there in all countries.<br> <br> -Dan<br> <font color="#888888"><br> --<br> </font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">ubuntu-au mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br>