Mike McCarty wrote:
I see
that the Red Hat site suggests Bit Torrent.
I went to the website, and I don't see where it would
help. And I don't understand the bit about "if you don't
allow Bit Torrent to upload from your machine, you won't
get improved download rates."
They specifically state that it is a means for publishing
things from one's own machine to the world.
Can anyone explain, in ordinary language, what possible
advantage it would give me over, say, wget?
I see two advantages which lead me to use it for large distros.
- Network citizenship. It's easier on the popular servers which
means that it's available even when they are clogged.
- Restartability. I can start a download. Freeze it. And later
restart it with bittorent. For huge distros, that's a big win.
It's not faster for me, not usually. At least, not presuming that the
primary servers are actually available and I can afford to let the
download run it's course.
--rich
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