On Jo, 20 iun 13, 09:18:29, Conrad Nelson wrote: > (I have never in all my time seen a single torrent beat the speeds of > straight up downloading.)
I have. I my experience it may depend on: - bittorrent client (some clients are able to download the same torrent much faster) - seeder/leecher counts and ratio (obvious) - where these seeders/leechers are (i.e. it helps if some of them are in the same country or even connected to the same ISP, for obvious reasons) - how your ISP handles bittorent (some ISPs here even advertise good bittorrent speeds) - phase of the moon, etc. Also bittorrent can stress your system in interesting ways (e.g. it generates a lot of I/O) and requires decent networking stack and hardware. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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