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On 05/03/2009 16:11, Tom Potts wrote: > On Thursday 05 March 2009 14:26, Ralph Smithen wrote: > >> 2009/3/5<jon.davey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> >>> Alan Pope writes:> On 04/03/2009, Rob Beard<rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>>>> It's possible that they were overwhelmed with the amount of downloads >>>>> that they have decided to make it into a torrent thus saving them >>>>> bandwidth. >>>>> >>>> It was always a torrent, it was never an http download. >>>> They did the same for their tuxradar podcast. >>>> Makes total sense for an audience of geeks who "get" what bittorrent >>>> is about - given a lot of them use it to get their ISO in the first >>>> place. >>>> Their tracker will probably have more accurate stats on how many >>>> downloads / how much bandwidth was used, and they may well use that >>>> information for further promotion. >>>> Cheers, >>>> Al. >>>> >>> I never really got my head around bit-torrents. I downloaded the torrent >>> file does that now mean that because the link to the mag isn't there any >>> more I can't get a copy? >>> Cheers, JOn >>> >> I just checked and the tracker is still up: >> http://www.linuxformat.co.uk:6969 >> >> That means that, provided you have the .torrent file, you can still >> download the file :) >> >> Here's an article explaining how it works: >> http://computer.howstuffworks.com/bittorrent.htm >> > From the above article: > "This process makes popular and very large files, such as videos and > television programs, download much faster than is possible with other > protocols." > This is a bit of a lie - I've always found torrent very slow - however it does > mean the person hosting or publishing whatever is torrented doesn't have to > choke or get hammered. > I gave up torrenting after I discovered I was sending 5..30 * what I was > receiving and using 0.5meg ADSL thats a real killer. > Tom te tom te tom > > You can force the upload and download speeds, I find one torrent site I use which has UK based members always gives me a good speed, usually around 600 to 700KB/sec on my 7 Meg DSL connection (Enta ALT and node congestion dependent). But as you say sometimes it can go slow where you upload faster than you download. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html