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Re: [LUG] Bittorent?

 

Jonathan Roberts wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I finally had a bit of time to play with bittorrent today and got it
> all set up and saw speeds up to 180kbps which was cool :D
>
> Still not as fast as I get from a good http source but I think that
> might have had something to do with a bad ratio(?), or possibly the
> torrent I was grabbing - I'll keep experiementing though and thanks
> for all your help! Is nice to know that come release day of distros I
> won't need to worry so much about swamped mirrors...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jon
>
>   
in my experience 180 is a very good speed to get out of bittorrent, 
towards the top of the range when downloading video etc. The only 
download that was blindingly fast turned out to be some sort of trojan, 
so maybe the source was turbo charged or something.

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