BitTorrent issues with FC4 isos

[bruce]

after looking at 'getright', i'm suspicious as to how it can wor with any
given 'file' of any large size.. if as you say, it splits the file up, and
gets the chunks from different sources.. that's essentially what bittorent
does.. i'm dubious that this app has the number of users as bittorrent, and
i'd expect over all, that for large/more popular files, it wouldn't be as
useful...

however, it might be that the app can actually be pointed at a mirror for a
file, and directly download the file, which is not the purpose of
bittorrent...

-bruce


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Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 9:26 PM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: BitTorrent issues with FC4 isos


On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 21:03 -0700, Jared Buck wrote:

>  > > ANYTHING. At my current speed it will take 8 DAYS to finish
>  > downloading the FC4 isos, and that isn't acceptable to
>  > > me.  These slow speeds are the only reason I currently have a very
>  > big dislike of BT.
>  >
>  > How long are you letting it run? It sometimes takes several hours for
the
>  > dload speed to come up. Mine was running 10-15kb/s for approx the first
4
>  > hours, it is now up to 150kb/s. For my dsl circuit that is about all I
>  > can
>  > expect.
>  >
>  > Regards.
>  >
>  >
>  > Tom Diehl       tdiehl at rogueind.com     Spamtrap address
>
> 10-15 is where it is right now in terms of download speed.  I'll let it
> run overnight and see where it is then.
>
> Jared
>
>

I too tried bittorrent but speeds were ridiculous. I just kicked of a
windows download manager - getright (http://www.getright.com/) - which
splits the file into several segments and downloads from different
sources. DVD version took about 2 hrs on my cable with speeds ~400KB/s

Adil

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