re bittorrent

[Joseph H. Fry]

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 ----
(joe at thefrys.com)


> >> Why do you download with bittorrent as opposed to FTP?