Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 02:35:11 -0500 From: "Joseph H. Fry" <joe@thefrys.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: re bittorrent Message-ID: <002301c4c565$7b82e080$f100a8c0@lucy> In-Reply-To: <418EEDE4.1040000@nbritton.org>
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Not to mention, if there are enough clients hosting, then downloads can often be faster. Why? Because partial downloads can be pulled from multiple sources. I just downloaded the miniinst iso in under 15min at an average rate of about 360KB/s from a pool of 10 servents (bittorrent server/clients). The only way I could get it that fast with FTP is if I used getright or someother ftp client that allows for splitting a download across multiple FTP servers. Now of course the real benefit comes just after a release when everyone and their uncle is downloading a copy and the FTP servers are extra busy. When things slow down a bit it's not as big a benefit. ---- Joe Fry ---- (joe@thefrys.com) > >> Why do you download with bittorrent as opposed to FTP?
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