torrent very quick, why? (not complaining) - also desktop, upgradeable?

[Jim Cornette]

Is there a technical reason why the torrent was as quick as it way? I 
never got 700k transfers before with the torrent. Usually I only get 20k 
to 40k transfers.
Upload is only 20k to feed the torrent on my machine though.

Switching to the desktop version DVD, are upgrades workable? I have a 
lot of applications that are from all classes. Since I'm seeding the 
torrent (very little speed though) I have not tried to install yet.

I will probably do an install on fresh computers but was wondering how 
much of a problem will limited models inflict on "everything 
installations" if upgrades were attempted.

Jim
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[Jeffrey Ollie]

On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 21:50 -0500, Jim Cornette wrote:
>  Is there a technical reason why the torrent was as quick as it way? I
>
>  never got 700k transfers before with the torrent. Usually I only get 20k 
>  to 40k transfers.
>  Upload is only 20k to feed the torrent on my machine though. 
Bittorrent transfers are fast if there are a lot of systems contributing
bandwidth.  There is only one system that is an "official" seed.  Even
though that system is on a pretty fast link when you get a lot of people
trying to download at the same time it can take a while.  I have a
pretty decent link at work so I made a point of setting up a client as
soon as the torrents were available and sharing my bandwidth.  I think
several others did the same.

Jeff

[Jim Cornette]

Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
>  On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 21:50 -0500, Jim Cornette wrote:
> > Is there a technical reason why the torrent was as quick as it way? I 
> > never got 700k transfers before with the torrent. Usually I only get 20k 
> > to 40k transfers.
> > Upload is only 20k to feed the torrent on my machine though.
>  
>  Bittorrent transfers are fast if there are a lot of systems contributing
>  bandwidth.  There is only one system that is an "official" seed.  Even
>  though that system is on a pretty fast link when you get a lot of people
>  trying to download at the same time it can take a while.  I have a
>  pretty decent link at work so I made a point of setting up a client as
>  soon as the torrents were available and sharing my bandwidth.  I think
>  several others did the same.
>  
>  Jeff
>   
The extra bandwidth helped out considerably. I expected the download to 
take overnight and maybe longer. I was surprised that it took whatever 
700kb/sec would take in time for the ISO to download.

I left the torrent on and contributed overnight and a workday which 
contributed some, but it seemed pitiful to what was received.

Thanks!
Jim

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