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
