On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 03:27, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Wednesday August 27 2003 07:45 pm, Brook Humphrey wrote: > > However I was only getting about 2k or 3k max > > and most the time it was sitting at 0. > > Yep, it sux. That's about the incomin I was gettin too > > > This was my first and last > > use of bittorrent. > > First time, tho I right'a way figured out how to get all 3 iso's > goin at once. Even a 3x, bittorrent SUX. After 5 hours, you've > hardly left the starting gate. Plus now I reckon they're not > resumable either. Further suckyiness
Bittorrent is resumable and its download speed relies entirely on the upload speed available from the clients who have already downloaded any given file. It's not exactly rocket science. If it's slow, that means there's not many people on the torrent or they're all capping their upload speed. No reason to blame the program, which works very well. I've downloaded at full ADSL speeds from torrents with reasonable amounts of users before. > Why are games played on iso releases? What do you mean? Previously, ISOs were released on mirrors. Now, ISOs are released on mirrors and also on BitTorrent. Who's losing out? What is there to get angry about? Even if you don't like BT... -- adamw
