On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 10:45, Paul Howarth wrote: > Botond Kardos wrote: > > Hi, > > can you propose a program to download DVD images with? (FC3 is coming. > > :> ) Something which can handle huge files (unlike mget) and can resume > > after disconnects (unlike wget)? > > I would strongly recommend using bittorrent to download the DVD ISO. It's > likely to be faster than a download from a single site, checksums each 1MB > chunk as it downloads it (redownloaing if necessary) and has no problems > resuming a download after a disconnect. > Will bittorrent work behind a firewall and a proxy? The FAQ (http://dessent.net/btfaq/) says that "desproxy" can do some tricks for me, but it doesn't says how.
