On Thursday 26 October 2006 20:14, jfweber@gilweber.com wrote:
Question... how long are you guys taking to (dl)i.e. torrent this to your boxes? This copper wire dsl ( BellSouth) ''torrent" has been going since noon yesterday.. and still says it has mover than 7 hrs to go.. seems to me I could have downloaded this thing directly faster than that!
It varies quite a bit. Some ISPs throttle (or just block) torrent protocol. This can sometimes be offset by using encryption (Ktorrent supports it). Last week I wad downloading Mepis from 14 seeds at the same time as some game demo with 6 seeds. The 6 seed game filled the pipe, and mepis just loafed along at a about 10th of my bandwidth. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen