[CentOS] Torrent: reminder to use it folks!

Kenneth Porter shiva at sewingwitch.com
Tue Dec 18 01:16:15 UTC 2007


--On Monday, December 17, 2007 4:58 PM -0800 centos at 911networks.com wrote:

> Why use torrents? With torrents I get around 25Kb/sec.

Sounds like something is throttling your torrent connection. Start by using 
a non-standard torrent port to escape traffic shaping by naive throttles.

> With places such as utah.edu [I am in North America] I got
> 320Kb/sec steady. It took me 3hr and a bit to download the 5.1
> dvd. As far as I understand it, Utah and the other mirrors donated
> the bandwidth to the community.

Torrents have the benefit of sharing the cost over many community 
contributors.



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