On Tuesday 18 December 2007 03:05:52 Robert Arkiletian wrote:
> 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
Over here in the UK most if not all the ISP's will throttle people that they
think are file sharing. Try changing the port that the bittorrent software is
using. Remember to do it for UDP and TCP packets on the same port and open
and / or open the same port on your firewall.
>
> > > 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.
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