Re: Torrent, anyone using it?

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 08/14/05 

Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 20:17:48 +0200

In comp.os.linux.misc Unruh <unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca>:
> Michael Heiming <michael+USENET@www.heiming.de> writes:

>>Hi!

>>Some (legal) download was only offered through .torrent, hadn't
>>used at all until now.

> mandrake distributes all their distros using torrent. It can be slow,and
> can be very fast (many MB/sec)

>>Installed a client "azureus" or so found on freshmeat.net, seems
>>to work but it's dog slow 30-50 KB/sec are all, will take days to
>>finish. Anyone else got better results out of it, or is this all
>>the wonders of .torrent have to offer?

> It depends on how many and who is offering it. If it is some poor shloch on
> a 33KB modem you will not get very good transfers. Often you will find that
> the system will start off slow and then speed up.

Right now it seems to have slowed down even more (30KB/sec),
after 7h27m it has downloaded 930MB, it's an documentary movie
(DVD size) so it'll take some days to finish. Was mistakenly
under the impression it could be watched today.;(

> Remember that torrent is a peer to peer sharing network and thus your speed
> depends on your peers.

Yep, that's the reason. Seems one has to live with it, if some
download is only offered this way. Someone else already pointed
out things being as slow for him. 

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