I usually don't like torrents. I hate them, and they hate me.

A few times only, the only way I could get a file was another was through a .torrent. So I used it BitTorrent to get the files. And it worked.

With the new Mandriva 2007 torrents, I've found the best reason to hate torrents: the stupid mandriva-free-2007-CD.i586.torrent packages several files (several CDs) under the same torrent, for a total of 2784.3 MB.

And it was CD1. Very slowly, but it got completed. 725225472 bytes.
And it was CD2. Slowly. Completed. 733958144 bytes.

In the meantime, I found a FTP site where all the CDs were available through FTP. And I thought: «While I will get CD3 and CD4 at 120kB/s via FTP, I could burn CD1 and CD2.»

By precaution, I tried to open the ISO files with GNOME's Archive Manager.Huh?!

Yes, ladies and gentlemen: I don't know hows this f**!@$#%#^$g idea of torrent works, but this is a broken concept!

Why can't I have the files that are already downloaded? Why should I wait untill ALL the files are completed? What's wrong with the files already completed?

The filesize is correct, the MD5 is not.

So I had to re-download the already downloaded CD1 and CD2, through FTP. Compared to the speed I could get with BitTorrent (8...12 kB/s), this one was much better, eh?


I will never use torrents again.

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