From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 8 00:25:13 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32BCF16A4CE for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 00:25:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.iinet.net.au (mail-03.iinet.net.au [203.59.3.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8B38E43D49 for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 00:25:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from quinn1@gmx.de) Received: (qmail 6742 invoked from network); 8 Nov 2004 00:24:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?203.217.48.179?) (203.217.48.179) by mail.iinet.net.au with SMTP; 8 Nov 2004 00:24:59 -0000 Message-ID: <418EBDB7.90709@gmx.de> Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 11:28:39 +1100 From: Quinn Ellis User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200411080022.08394.nbco@screaming.net> In-Reply-To: <200411080022.08394.nbco@screaming.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: re bittorrent X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 00:25:13 -0000 nbco wrote: >Hey list, >I downloaded the 5.3-RELEASE-i386-disc1 iso via bittorrent. > >The iso (644.91MB) downloaded in about 3 hours, over a 512/256 adsl >connection. Which I think is pretty good. > >There don't seem to be that many people uploading it from me at the >moment. > >I'm impressed, >.nbco > > Why do you download with bittorrent as opposed to FTP? Quinn.