I dont know if its slackware iso on the server or something wrong with what i am doing. Ive tried firefox, IE and ncftp to download disc1 iso 5 times from 4 different servers and the md5's dont match causing a failed install. What is the best way to retrieve and burn slackware iso on a windows OS?

Opera has a decent download manager with resume. FreeDownloadManager is ok - reminds me of kget. Burning with imgburn is reliable and easy.
http://www.imgburn.com/
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail...r/1090197761/1

Use BitTorrent. Checks are automatic during download.

***EDIT***

To clarify, get a BitTorrent client (Azureus is nice). Go here http://www.slackware.com/getslack/torrents.php . Open the .torrent file with Azureus.

When done, burn the iso however you like.

Agreed. It's more likely to be a faster download than from a static server, as well.

I dont know about faster download im getting 50kib/sec

Let it cook for a bit.

It may be slow now, but, as another poster mentioned, at least it does have 'on-the-fly' error segment checking (error checking).

BT is the way to go for most downloads like this, at least I've always used it.

Let's see...disc 1 ISO, for 10.2? let me know which ISO and I'll seed for you.

I don't find bittorrent fast either. 50 kbs isn't bad compared to the 14 kbs I usally get. Maybe its just my download choices.

I usally get between 100kbs and 150 kbs with http and ftp downloads. Broadband of course.

I've got disc1 of 10.2 running now. It should be going faster for you. Let me know if it's working. I don't have the actual ISOs on my machine but my download is going at 250KiB/s...so you should be getting benefit on your BT connection (even though I can only upload at about 50KiB/s).

Let me know if it's helping.

It's at 550KiB/s+ download rate now...will be strictly seeding shortly.

http://www.x-plane.org/home/BobB/iso.jpg

No...I'm not showing off, I'm showing what's possible with bittorrent.

And, no, I don't have any kind of OC pipe or fiber at my condo...it's strictly Time Warner Cable Modem...which, AFAIK is "best-effort 5Mbs".

And, I am seeding for my 50KiB/S outbound bandwidth. Let me know if it helps. BT is the way to go when downloading things like ISOs for numerous reasons...among them like error checking which was mentioned above.

Bottom line...don't complain about BitTorrent. It works for most, for some it doesn't. Please download Slackware however you can...by whatever means are fastest to you. BitTorrent works well for me. I'm sorry that it doesn't with your ISP or other limitations.

BitTorrent is nice. It has the error checking. As for speed, it isn't always faster. It doesn't even always work (not enough seeders).

One time when you will notice INCREDIBLE speed (relative to other download methods) is when a new release is made. The FTP/HTTP servers get slower and harder to connect to (too many users at once). BitTorrent gets faster and faster (a whole bunch of users).

One thing that may have not been considered; if you multiply the number of times you had to download via FTP or HTTP (because of the md5sum not matching) by the average amount of time the downloads took, you will see that using BitTorrent in the first place would have been much faster.

Actually, I never had a problem w/http or ftp. On my friends DSL (I'm too cheap to pay the phone co for ANYTHING, I even use Vonage!! thru my 256 cable) at 1.5M takes ~1.25 hours to d/l both discs, and checksum is fine. Last time I used BT, took 12 hours, and stopped with 5% left....
But, that's just me. If BT works and http/ftp doesn't, my granpa used to say:"Yous gots to do what yous gots to do" (He also said acne was caused by the Commies, so.....)

Agreed again.

Locales and other variables make each situation different.

I have had some downloads go faster via http or ftp pipes. Admittedly, I generally am downloading high-demand items via BT which would explain the availability of bandwidth which I have been accustomed to.