[ale] bittorrent gain?

[Geoffrey]

James P. Kinney III wrote:
> I think you missed a subtle point about bittorrent. It is not so much
> designed for faster downloads to you as it is designed to distribute the
> download process away from the originating host. There are some flags
> that can limit your serving upload speeds. 
> 
> That said, I did a bit torrent download of slackware 9.1 a week ago or
> so and it came in a bit faster than a dedicated download from GaTech
> mirrors. It wasn't noticeably faster (or slower). But I did see my
> outgoing bandwidth max out after about 10 minutes. 

Okay, so the focus is to share the transfer load.  Well, I'm up to 130+ 
KiB/s now, so that's not too bad.  Upload is still low, although jumped 
a bit to >20.

I'm downloading the latest mandrake 9.2 that's provided to members.  The 
only link they provide is a bittorrent link, so I don't have a choice 
but to go that route.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey	esoteric at 3times25.net

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