On Wed, March 22, 2006 5:55 pm, Karanbir Singh said: > Jack Bailey wrote: >>similarCD >>> >>> 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 ? > I've been experiencing similar speeds as those described by Jack all day today. The 4-CD torrent was really fast, but the one for the DVD has been much slower. Marko