Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

Fastest download mirrors

  • 16-05-2005 9:23am
    #1
    Khannie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭


    I've found a few Irish sites to be /very/ fast for downloads and they mirror a lot of major sites. I'm sure others have nuggets out there.

    My faves are:

    heanet.ie (in particular because this has a sourceforge mirror, but also mirrors lots of others stuff)
    and
    ftp.esat.net (got linux distro's from this one, but it also mirrors lots of sites)

    Anyone have others?


Comments

  • #2
    KdjaCL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,346 ✭✭✭✭KdjaCL


    Heanet is super get 320kb shame its always small files(wonder if Syxpak can get some nice big files onto it).
    Peoples Eircom personal sites are super fast too.

    kdjac


  • #3
    Stephen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,484 ✭✭✭✭Stephen


    Heanet is this business

    ...especially since my college has a 34Mb ATM link into it :)
    The heanet ftp is also available via IPv6, which is nice.

    http://mirror.ac.uk is probably better if you're on an ISP that doesn't peer with INEX, such as UTV.


  • #4
    radiospan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,353 ✭✭✭radiospan


    HEANet supply the major colleges in Ireland with their internet connection, so heanet downloads are always very very fast here in UCC.

    The fastest I've seen was 3100KB/sec one weekend from ftp.heanet.ie when not many others were using the bandwidth.


  • #5
    Nietzschean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,314 ✭✭✭Nietzschean


    Stephen wrote:
    Heanet is this business

    ...especially since my college has a 34Mb ATM link into it :)
    The heanet ftp is also available via IPv6, which is nice.

    Very true nothing like getting filez at 11mb/sec :)
    (have 100meg link at the mo to heanet)


  • #6
    MrVestek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,258 ✭✭✭MrVestek


    I hate you, I hate you all. I've gone from 1.5Mbps (which would have been upgraded to 3Mbps by now) to bloody 56k due to a move (living in my dad's now... and does he see the point in getting broadband? No...). Grrrr, I hate you all.


  • Advertisement
  • #7
    hamster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,766 ✭✭✭hamster


    Ha! I'm still stuck with fantastic rates of 8k/s. Oh Wow!... oh I think I got to sit down. :rolleyes:


  • #8
    the_syco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,316 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    KdjaC wrote:
    Heanet is super get 320kb shame its always small files(wonder if Syxpak can get some nice big files onto it).
    Peoples Eircom personal sites are super fast too.

    kdjac
    What? The 700MB *nix distro's too small?


  • #9
    Nietzschean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,314 ✭✭✭Nietzschean


    i think he'd be referring to files off their sourcefourge mirror..which do tend to be relatively small....


Advertisement