On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 14:19, Nifty Hat Mitch wrote: > On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 06:00:33PM +0700, Philippe wrote: > > > > > First time using bittorent .. on a dialup. I will not tell you how long > > I need to download FC3 :-) ... but this is not the point. > > Philippe, > > I am a fan of bittorrent but on a dialup you are not likely to > contribute to to the torrent in ways that you might expect. Perhaps > limit the number of clients your serve and limit upload bandwidth if > you must use bittorrent. There is no reason to permit 30+ upload > connections to your box. > > $ netstat -an | grep 6[0-9][0-9][0-9] | grep ^tcp > > If I was still on a dialup I would use wget or curl to > pull down the image. > > Both curl and wget have ways to continue a download (reget) > in case you are disconnected. RTFM.... > > Both curl and wget can give you control over the specific ISO > image you are downloading. > > This way your and your neighbors can help each other by downloading > one ISO each and help each other. > > bittorrent (and rsync) can double check and finish downloading partial > wget/ curl/ ftp download files. The reverse is not true AFAIK. That was exactly the kind of things I was thinking. Do I harm the other users, taking parts from my download. I am now waiting for a update of a Bangkok ftp server, and gftp will work days and nights. Thanks a lot, Philippe -- Philippe, Chiangmai, Thailand
