Lørdag 21 oktober 2006 04:03 skrev Sid Boyce:
In my expeeeerince of bittorrent in downloading CD's, it takes days to get a set, whereas using ftp it's a matter of hours using a 10M cable broadband link. However I have set download/upload weights, it's been just too slow. If that is not the common experience, I would like to know the proper setup.
It is not a matter of setup (primarily at least), it is not a matter of protocols either. It's a simple matter of how many people seed, their allowed upload bandwidth and their share ratio. If many people seed bittorrent can potentially be a lot faster than ftp and with a lot less load on the mirrors. In the current state of things bittorrent is not the fastest way - but _you_ could help change that by not only thinking about your immediate convenience. I hope Peter Czanik's offer is accepted. And that if it doesn't mean a lot of extra work we can have fast bittorrent downloads of dvd isos. Is Eberhard out there somewhere trying to avoid this issue? Can gwdg.de seed? Martin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org