On Thursday 25 September 2003 11:24, Leon Brooks wrote: > On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 00:02, Rob wrote: > > In my experience, > > torrents are faster than the fastest mirror once they get > > going. > *IF* there are thousands of people participating. If not, the > mirror works out faster.
And I say again, *in my experience*, they're always faster. This is probably because I tend to want to download ISO's when everyone else is also trying, making torrents much much faster and mirrors much much slower. I have no idea whether it's dozens, hundreds or thousands of people, but I do know that when I use a torrent to download a Linux ISO, my connections to other people (and vice versa) are much closer to dozens than thousands in number. I imagine that weeks later a torrent would be slower as you suggest. But of course we were talking about release day, not weeks afterward. Rob
