[ale] bittorrent gain?

[Geoffrey]

John Mills wrote:
> ALErs -
> 
> On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 08:37, Geoffrey wrote:
>>
>>>I guess I scared it, cause my download rate has jumpbed to 100+ KiB/s 
>>>from a previous < 20.
> 
> 
> I just used bittorrent to download Slackware-9.1 disks 1 and 2. Each
> session took several hours (> 8.0). I didn't start any other bittorrent
> programs (i.e., tracker) on my system, nor open other ports. I did see
> outbound traffic, so other peers were apparently able to connect.

As I noted earlier, my download went up to 130+ KiB/s, unfortunately 
it's now hovering around 7-10 KiB/s.  I don't see the gain in the tool, 
personally.  I'll likely only use it when that's my only option.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey	esoteric at 3times25.net

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