Re: Torrent: reminder to use it folks!

["Robert Arkiletian" <robark@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 17, 2007 5:16 PM, Kenneth Porter <shiva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> --On Monday, December 17, 2007 4:58 PM -0800 centos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > Why use torrents? With torrents I get around 25Kb/sec.
>
> Sounds like something is throttling your torrent connection. Start by using
> a non-standard torrent port to escape traffic shaping by naive throttles.

I think the EFF was accusing Comcast of doing this.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071128-eff-study-reveals-evidence-of-comcasts-bittorrent-interference.html

>
> > With places such as utah.edu [I am in North America] I got
> > 320Kb/sec steady. It took me 3hr and a bit to download the 5.1
> > dvd. As far as I understand it, Utah and the other mirrors donated
> > the bandwidth to the community.
>
> Torrents have the benefit of sharing the cost over many community
> contributors.
>

Also don't forget that many mirrors offer rsync. If you rename your
5.0 DVD to the 5.1 version and do an rsync it will save lots of
bandwidth.

-- 
Robert Arkiletian
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