Not to mention, if there are enough clients hosting, then downloads can often be faster.
Why? Because partial downloads can be pulled from multiple sources. I just downloaded the miniinst iso in under 15min at an average rate of about 360KB/s from a pool of 10 servents (bittorrent server/clients). The only way I could get it that fast with FTP is if I used getright or someother ftp client that allows for splitting a download across multiple FTP servers. Now of course the real benefit comes just after a release when everyone and their uncle is downloading a copy and the FTP servers are extra busy. When things slow down a bit it's not as big a benefit. ---- Joe Fry ---- ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > >> Why do you download with bittorrent as opposed to FTP? _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
