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Re: To FTP or to HTTP

To: linux-india-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: To FTP or to HTTP
From: Sthitaprajna <zeeble@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 07:53:37 +0530
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On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 14:59:07 +0530
"agguptaca" <agguptaca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> What do you guys think is a better option to download a new kernel via FTP
> or via HTTP . Which is faster (if any in this choked bandwidth country).
> Kernel.org supports both protocols and supports resume on both of them.

Dunno if it should matter, but using wget -c on the http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/ has always been better for me. You could try the HongKong mirror..it is fast..or the ftp server at uk.linux.org.

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