Non-torrent D/L of 4.3 DVD image?

[jack at internetguy.net (Jack Bailey)]

>
> you have a local problem on your end or a mis configured bittorrent
> client - look at this :
>
> at time of release, the DVD torrents were seeding ( for x86_64, i386 and
> ia64 together ) at over 1.3 GiB/sec.
>
> its only grown from there. And almost everyone who's commented on it -
> has said that they have been able to saturate their links with the
> torrent ( eg. one guy on irc was leeching at 35MiB/sec earlier in the
> day today ... )
>
> I find it hard to believe that in general terms, ftp would offer much
> better performance.

I do believe that something is wrong with the setup. I get torrent 
connection speeds that vary wildly from 10KB/sec to about 200KB/sec. FTP 
gets me about 1380KB/sec.

Jack