Jack Bailey wrote: > >> >> you have a local problem on your end or a mis configured bittorrent >> client - look at this : >> >> at time of release, the DVD torrents were seeding ( for x86_64, i386 and >> ia64 together ) at over 1.3 GiB/sec. >> >> its only grown from there. And almost everyone who's commented on it - >> has said that they have been able to saturate their links with the >> torrent ( eg. one guy on irc was leeching at 35MiB/sec earlier in the >> day today ... ) >> >> I find it hard to believe that in general terms, ftp would offer much >> better performance. > > I do believe that something is wrong with the setup. I get torrent > connection speeds that vary wildly from 10KB/sec to about 200KB/sec. FTP > gets me about 1380KB/sec. > surely, these are not centos DVD image torrents you are talking about here ? if they are - can you give me some time scales as to when you had this sort of a speed issue ? -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq