Originally Posted by
Cameronian
Does Open Office need to take so long to download? It doesn't seem to be the size but, rather, the speed from their website.
The downloads are mirrored across the world. A mirror close to your location (as per geoip) is automatically selected for you in the Download page. If that one seems to go too slow, you have a number of options:
* Cancel the download, and visit the download page again. Hopefully a different and faster mirror will be selected.
* Use P2P. There is a link somewhere in the downloads page.
* Manually select a mirror. Again, there is a link in the downloads page to a list of mirrors--this is a bit more technical than it should be, as it does not appear to be targeted at unsophisticated end users, for some reason.
All of this assumes you are using Windows. If using Linux, it will come from your distro's repository via the usual mechanism so none of the above applies. Don't know anything about Mac software.
cdtaylor,
The post you are replying to is from 2009!