Tristan, Tristan Wibberley wrote: > On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 19:03 +0100, James Hargreaves wrote: >> For anyone downloading Kubuntu 7.04 desktop i386 , I suggest using the >> HTTP download, the torrent is much slower (>25kbps compared to ~70kbps >> for HTTP) at the moment. > > Are you on British Telecom? I heard a rumour that bittorrent was > throttled and I was getting both slow download and slow upload for > Ubuntu 7.04 desktop i386 on Friday night. (bittorrent download was > estimated to take 17h, while HTTP download took 19 minutes).
I'm with Pipex who resell BT ADSL, effectively and I know that bittorrent is throttled to about 25kbps. I can set up a VPN to work and overcome this though! A bit cheeky, but it works! > Is there any way to test this throttling theory? Searching the suppliers terms and conditions might turn up something. If you can set up a VPN to somewhere, then that might verify it. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold, IT Security Coordinator, University of Manchester, IT Services Division, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED], H: http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
