[ale] bittorrent gain?

[James P. Kinney III]

I think you missed a subtle point about bittorrent. It is not so much
designed for faster downloads to you as it is designed to distribute the
download process away from the originating host. There are some flags
that can limit your serving upload speeds. 

That said, I did a bit torrent download of slackware 9.1 a week ago or
so and it came in a bit faster than a dedicated download from GaTech
mirrors. It wasn't noticeably faster (or slower). But I did see my
outgoing bandwidth max out after about 10 minutes. 

On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 07:51, John Wells wrote:
> Geoffrey,
> 
> This was my experience as well. I do remember reading that if you opened a
> particular port on your firewall, you'd receive higher gains.  Seems
> counterintuitive and I don't remember why it suggested that...it's been
> awhile.
> 
> I ditched it and have now gone back to starting the download with a wget
> wrapper right before bed, seeing it here the next morning.
> 
> John
> 
> Geoffrey said:
> > Okay, so I'm trying to figure out the gain by using bittorrent.  I know
> > that I could have easily downloaded at lease one iso by now. What the
> > hell am I doing wrong here?  Looking at 24 hours to finish the download.
> >   Still haven't finished downloading the first iso.  I could have done
> > this via 56k.
> >
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> >
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