--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.