Re: Torrent, anyone using it?

From: peanutwhistle (onepeanutwhistle_at_aol.com)
Date: 08/14/05 

Date: 14 Aug 2005 13:09:15 -0700

Michael Heiming wrote:
> 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.

I saw the same bit torrent results you folks saw while I was
downloading a Redhat documentation CD and Knoppix 4.0. The whole time,
I was using 100MBps connections at my workplace. I just let the
process do its thing overnight, but it was complete and the subsequent
DVD burns were just fine. Oh well.
>
> 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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