On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 14:46:56 -0400, tom wrote: > > I've been wget/ftp/http'ing my cds of fedora in the past, so I thought I'd > try using bittorrent via a daughter's cable connection and mac. Going for > the Zod-binary-i386, at 49 MB into the download I'm seeing download rates > bouncing between 0.4K/s and perhaps 10k/s. Somehow those figures don't > seem right to me. The upload rate is running 7-9K/s, so it isn't because > I'm not sharing. > > Any clues as to what to check?? I tried torrent too, in good faith, and because traditionally mirrors are slow during releases. I noticed similar things: I had an upload speed of 20Kb/s and 15-19Kb/s download. So after a while I thought I'd try the always reliable kernel.org, and lo and behold, I got the entire dvd at some 700Kb/s, in 1-2 hrs. Torrent is a good initiative. If only it worked. Most people have cable/dsl connections, and their upload speed is some 20-30Kb/s. That means you would have to be downloading from about 20-30 people simultaneously to get the equivalent of 600Kb/s (and be the only one downloading from those people). I'm not sure this is feasible. Get it from mirrors.kernel.org, burn it, install it, and be done with it.
