On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 12:03:16PM +0100, jdd wrote:
Per Jessen wrote:
Yep, exactly the same here. Bittorrent is sloooow as far as the opensuse IOSs go.
I recently downloaded 600Mo in two ours with bittorrent (not from openSUSE), so bittorrent is not the problem.
the problem is that there must be many users to the system to be fast.
I think that the main one is cutting down on speed in some way.
but bt is not really proposed on the as the first alternative to use.
It is now.
notice that the best client is the "btdownloadgui %F" (found in my kde menu, installed by 10.0). Ktorrent crashes last time I tried to use it and it don't use the same data than the native client so it's not fully compatible
I use azureus. An extra disadvatange for the download is that downloading an ISO is faster then using applydeltaiso. :-( So to conclude: bittorrent might be the worst choice for most people due to several factors: 1) It is slower then FTP 2) You download 5 CD's instead of the needed 3 houghi -- Nutze die Zeit. Sie ist das Kostbarste, was wir haben, denn es ist unwiederbringliche Lebenszeit. Leben ist aber mehr als Werk und Arbeit, und das Sein wichtiger als das Tun - Johannes Müller-Elmau