On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 16:02 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
It can give better effective bandwidth for you on the download by getting data from a number of peers rather than from a single server with limited IO capacity and bandwidth. It is also good form to
leave
your client open after the download finishes to "give back" to the community by sharing your bandwidth.
Umm, lessee if I understand correctly. (The figures below are the actual rates wget obtained for me when I downloaded the FC4 CD ISOs.)
Seems it would depend on the number of peers operating, their aggregate BW vs that available from a single dedicated server, your ISP's limitations, the particular routing you are getting, load on the server, .......
The operative word is "can" - YMMV.
Phil