Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (592 mails)

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kenneth Schneider wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-10-21 at 13:00 +0200, Martin Schlander wrote:
> > 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,
>
> This I would say is the only issue, people use torrent to download and
> choke off any upload to others making torrent slow to others. This is
> why I only use FTP.
>
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I guessed as much, I've not tried openSUSE, all previous torrents were 
of Mandrake/Mandriva.
Regards
Sid.
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