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brucewtb:
"Of course it's your ISP trying to save HIS bandwidth costs (and even putting you under a quota) by doing some local caching.

......if your ISP does some caching depending on some expiry time, they might have some files cached from a previous version coming from one mirror, but correct files coming from the other ones, because the expiry times won't match since the first downloads you triggered didn't happen at the same time. The mirrors are not treated equally, there's a primary one and a secondary one, and the secondary one is used only if the primary one has issues. That's why you think files are coming in different versions "at random".

A way to defend yourself against bad ISP policies might be using a VPN.  That would skip over any caching your ISP might have in place, because with a VPN the communication is encrypted between you and the host you are downloading from, so your ISP cannot possibly know what you are downloading, hence cannot use any caching."

Hmm your explanation may be correct and I will take it up with my ISP and see what they say.  I know they are trying to lower costs in other ways eg by reducing upload speeds.  However I am not sure what else I could have done on this occasion to get a clean set of files. I will reconsider a VPN but as I said previously the free ones have significant drawbacks.

Bruce

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