[ale] bittorrent
Michael D. Hirsch
mhirsch at nubridges.com
Mon Mar 8 10:46:26 EST 2004
On Saturday 06 March 2004 07:51 am, Geoffrey wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out the gain of using bittorrent. I guess it's
> simply the reduction of the load on mirrors and servers. I started a
> bittorrent to get Mandrake 10 yesterday. Now it's 3 cds so I know
> it's going to take a while, but right now I'm getting 11 KiB/s and
> have downloaded 399 M. That's barely 1/2 of one of the cds. ETA is
> 44 hours.
I found that it depended a lot on when I did it. At night it came in
slowly. During the day it was pretty fast (about 6 hours total--I
didn't say super fast). I don't know if it was because I'm on a cable
modem and I share bandwidth, or something else.
Be sure you open up the incoming ports. Sounds like you did because you
are uploading.
Michael
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