On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 12:03:16PM +0100, jdd wrote:
> Per Jessen wrote:
> 
> > Yep, exactly the same here.  Bittorrent is sloooow as far as the
> > opensuse IOSs go. 
> 
> I recently downloaded 600Mo in two ours with bittorrent (not
> from openSUSE), so bittorrent is not the problem.
> 
> the problem is that there must be many users to the system
> to be fast.

I think that the main one is cutting down on speed in some way.

> but bt is not really proposed on the as the first
> alternative to use.

It is now.

> notice that the best client is the "btdownloadgui %F" (found
> in my kde menu, installed by 10.0). Ktorrent crashes last
> time I tried to use it and it don't use the same data than
> the native client so it's not fully compatible

I use azureus. An extra disadvatange for the download is that downloading
an ISO is faster then using applydeltaiso. :-(

So to conclude:
bittorrent might be the worst choice for most people due to several
factors:
1) It is slower then FTP
2) You download 5 CD's instead of the needed 3


houghi
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