I'm currently living in a country where broadband is expensive, and,
even if you have the money to pay for broadband, upload speeds are below
64kbps. Because bittorrent rewards uploading, I've found that
downloading through bittorrent takes roughly double the time it takes me
to download directly from the mirrors (and when my maximum download
speed is 256kbps, it means the difference between a little over a day
for FC5 and a little over two days).
I would suspect most people with slow upload links have this problem
(though I could be completely wrong). If that is the case, then the
torrent statistics will be heavily biased towards users with reasonably
fast upload links, and the users with slower links (who, like myself,
are probably downloading the CD isos for reasons mentioned by Mike
Harris in another posting) aren't accurately represented.
Bear in mind that this is all based on assumptions made on my
experiences which may be completely incorrect.
Jonathan
Bill Nottingham said:
Alan Cox ([email protected]) said:
> > On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 12:02:03AM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>>> > > > Hi Bill,
>>> > > > How or where did you get those number?
>> > >
>> > > http://torrent.fedoraproject.org:6969/
> >
> > So its torrent stats only - thats fairly biased if so
Yes, but it's what's immediately available. 5:1 for x86_64 is still
fairly significant.
Bill
