I've never been especially impressed with torrent. It's never offered me much improvement over ftp. I pointed torrent at the Duke server this morning. The download of all 4 iso's concluded about 30 minutes ago. That's approx. 8 hours of download time (obviously, the projected download times reported by torrent are not to be believed). Top speed was around 150 kb/s, but the rate varied a lot, with frequent drops as low as 6 and 7 kb/s. Upload speed seemed to remain constant in the mid 20's. I tried torrent yesterday, letting it run for a few hours before giving up. Speeds were always below 10 kb/s. Dunno if it makes much difference to torrent, but I'm within shouting distance of Duke and RedHat. If they were handing out actual CD's, I could have made 4 or 5 round trips while waiting for the download to finish. :-) On Wed, 19 May 2004 22:47:03 +0200, "Florian Sievert" <FlorianSievert@xxxxxxxxxx> said: > > >However, I got em at 130k, fairly constant. But then, my machine has raw > >ports 6881-6999 from the internet ( port forwarding ), so I get better > >"karma" with the downloads/uploads. :) > > > > > I really like the idea with the better "karma" ;) I am also trying to > download fc2 via bittorrent and got dreamfull rates with about 80 kb/sec > the last hours. However the speed broke down this evening and I am > really happy about 10kb/sec. I asked myself if there are meanwhile to > much sourcers for the tracker, so communication is slowing down. However > I really think currently it is all about luck. Wishing luck that the > speed will increase the next hours again ;) > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
