On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 02:01:02PM -0600, Henrik Schmiediche wrote: > > Download the RH 9.0 ISO' via BitTorrent. > > > > http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/rh9.html > > > > Currently downloading at over 500Kb/sec. > > Which makes this whole *early-access* exercise silly. I'm getting > 120kB/s from BitTorrent, which is about 12x what I am getting from RHN. having never seen BitTorrent before, can someone explain just how it works? i decided to give it a shot, and the download process tells me i'm getting 5kB/s download and 11kB/s *upload*. i'm confused -- what is the fundamental operation of this thing? rday
