On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 09:11 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 15:04:36 -0800 (PST) > > From: Bayard Coolidge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Or be a Comcast customer, unless you're VERY patient. > > Took 7.5 hours using BitTorrent, average d/l speed purportedly 145 kb/s. > > Started at 10:21 AM EST, and finished just a few minutes ago. D/L > > behaviour was very bursty, stalling for several minutes at a time and > > then cranking at over 900kb/sec. I'm leaving it up for a while to "share > > I heard, somewhere, that Comcast is actually being sued for violating > net neutrality. Supposedly, they're throttling BitTorrent traffic. > Sorry, I don't have any links to support this; this info is purely > from the rumor mill. :)
I downloaded the Fedora DVD distro yesterday using BitTorrent. The 3.2+ GB download only took a few hours and I noticed download speeds bouncing around 400-500 KBs. Upload speeds were hovering around 80 KBS. Perhaps they have backed off their throttling activities? -Alex P.S. I was using Ktorrent on Ubuntu 7.10. > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/