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Asked by Mark

Every time I download ubuntu 7.10 beta it will only download to a point then acts as though 658MB has was downloaded but at last try only 367MB were downloaded. I try three time all with the same results diferent MB but not a complete file. I have downloaded 7.04 with no problem at all.

Running an old IBM T21 laptop with win XP Pro on it 650MHz cpu and 512RAM

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Best Jim Hutchinson (jphutch) said : 		#1

It probably has something to do with the fact that you trying to download on release day. The servers are really hard on release day. Try downloading via bit torrent instead. It usually goes a lot faster that way.

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Gord Allott (gordallott) said : 		#2

are you sure your internet connection isn't failing at some point? i would reccomend that you download the offical non-beta version of gutsy using bittorrent azureus is a good bittorrent client ( http://azureus.sourceforge.net/ ) and you can get the torrent to download it via bittorrent for your version here: http://releases.ubuntu.com/7.10/ubuntu-7.10-desktop-i386.iso.torrent

downloading via bittorrent will ensure that the file is 100% complete without any errors

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Mark (tonb3804) said : 		#3

Thanks Jim Hutchinson, that solved my question.

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Mark (tonb3804) said : 		#4

It is downloading faster and I beleive it will complete this time.

Thank you very much

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Jim Hutchinson (jphutch) said : 		#5

Good to hear. As Gord said, you might try bittorrent in the future (if you are not now). It's fast when there are a lot of seeders and there are a lot of seeders on release day. I downloaded both the 32 bit and 64 bit versions at the same time and in about 30 minutes total. I've had problems with azureus personally but it is supposed to be a good client. I used deluge. It's also quite nice.