On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 03:19:50PM -0700, Mr O wrote: > I've nuked the original and am watching it download painfully > slow over BT. Why do people actually like torrents? So they can > get movies? Am I missing something in my downloads? Should I be > telling it to make multiple connections? At 50KB/s down and half > that back up it'll take the whole freakin' day to grab the file.
Mostly because it's good for lessening server bandwidth requirements. Anyone can serve a file with a 24kbps uplink if there are other people downloading it. Of course, if everyone can download at twice the speed anyone can upload, unless there are lots of seeds, everyone's download speed is going to suck. And of course, lamers being lamers disconnect as soon as they have the whole file usually with only 50% uploaded. I typically get about 60kbps down and 120kbps up, giving me a ratio of 2:1 overall if I don't stay connected afterward. =) _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
