Hi Rob,
> On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 12:45:56 +0100, Terry Coles
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I did try bittorrent, but that only gave me about 1 kb/s.
>
> I find torrents can take a few minutes to get up to full speed. This
> is of course presuming everyone in the seed pool is uploading at a
> decent rate.
That's so poor Id assume Terry's ISP must be throttling his
(unencrypted?) Bittorrent.
EFF have written Switzerland to help investigate that kind of thing,
although it's not intended for every end user to be able to use at the
moment AIUI. Still, may interest some on the list.
http://www.eff.org/testyourisp/switzerland
Cheers,
Ralph.
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