[CentOS] Re: Torrent: reminder to use it folks!

Ugo Bellavance ugob at lubik.ca
Tue Dec 18 02:01:15 UTC 2007


centos at 911networks.com wrote:
> Why use torrents? With torrents I get around 25Kb/sec. 
> 
> 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.
> 

Even if they donate to the community, they still pay for it.  The less 
we take, happier they are to donate for many years.

Ugo




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