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. :-)
I started the download via the Duke torrent about noon yesterday. I had the GUI up all the time and had a kernel panic when I came home at 5PM.
I started the torrent from Duke again in a terminal and it finished downloading at about 3:30ish this morning. During the time between 5 PM and 11:30 PM the top speeds were around 50 kb/s and the upload speed was staying around 40 kb/s.
I liked the fact that clicking on the torrent link downloaded the 4 cd images, the MD5SUM and the rescue CD image. It put the files in a directory and was pretty automatic.
I have to agree that I had better luck with ftp retrieval of the images though.
Jim
