On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 21:29, Lorenzo Prince wrote:
Christopher A. Williams staggered into view and mumbled:
> > > I've got an 80+K/s wget running direct from redhat!
> >
> > i'm getting 250KB/sec on all three ISOs simultaneously, without
> > even using bittorrent. i'll let you know the mirror i'm using after
> > i'm done with it. :-)
>
> I'm jealous - only getting 200 to 210KB/sec on mine... <smile>
Now be really jealous! I gave up on bittorrent. I found a mirror in the UK that is
giving me 347KB/S. And I have
never downloaded at that speed before. I'm not even in the UK. I'm in the US.
The thing with bittorrent is that you need a number of people using it
to get benefits, and you get better d/l rates when uploading. Usually a
bittorrent download starts rather slowly and speed increases later on.
Regarding your earlier question: it is uploading segments you already
have to other bittorrent users. Go and read how bittorrent works
(
http://www.bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/).
Nils
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