how long will i get free CDs from Ubuntu?

[James Takac]

On Saturday 09 June 2007 20:39:09 Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> "丁昱" <ding.yu.a at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am in China,and I have downloaded ubuntu 7.04 for more than three
> > times.However, when i burned the iso file into cd,it did not
> > work. First,I doubt it is cause of my combo driver.But,when i used MD5
> > check software,i found it is because the error rate of transfering
> > bits.ISO file
>
> Hi,
>
> I have downloaded countless ISO files since the beginnings of Ubuntu
> 2.5 years ago... never got a corrupted ISO.
> You must have a really horrible net infrastructure to get THAT much
> problems :-(
>
> One thing I could suggest so, is to download the ISO image using
> Bittorrent, because I hear (someone please confirm or infirm), that the
> Bittorrent process inherently verifies the file's integrity during the
> download. So when it gives you the completed file, it basically means
> it is not corrupt.
>
> > wouldn't work if any bit is wrongly changed when
> > transferring.I have requested free cds from ubuntu.How long will it
> > take for me to receive it?
>
> As stated on the shipit website IIRC, it will take 4 to 6 weeks.
> Mine arrived after only 3 weeks, but other times I had to wait 2
> months, and for Breezy... I actually never received them !
>
> --
> Vince

Hi Guys,

Another thought here. As he doesn't mention what he's using to do the 
downloads I thought I'd mention that I sometimes have probs with download 
accelerators corrupting the downloads. More often than not, when this 
happens, downloading without a download accelerator fixes the prob for me

James