On Dec 17, 2007 5:16 PM, Kenneth Porter <shiva at sewingwitch.com> wrote: > --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. I think the EFF was accusing Comcast of doing this. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071128-eff-study-reveals-evidence-of-comcasts-bittorrent-interference.html > > > 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. > Also don't forget that many mirrors offer rsync. If you rename your 5.0 DVD to the 5.1 version and do an rsync it will save lots of bandwidth. -- Robert Arkiletian Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada Fl_TeacherTool http://www3.telus.net/public/robark/Fl_TeacherTool/ C++ GUI tutorial http://www3.telus.net/public/robark/