<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Mike McCarty wrote: <blockquote cite="mid42E7E5D0.1010503@sbcglobal.net" type="cite">I see that the Red Hat site suggests Bit Torrent. I went to the website, and I don't see where it would help. And I don't understand the bit about "if you don't allow Bit Torrent to upload from your machine, you won't get improved download rates." They specifically state that it is a means for publishing things from one's own machine to the world. Can anyone explain, in ordinary language, what possible advantage it would give me over, say, wget?</blockquote> I see two advantages which lead me to use it for large distros. <ol> <li>Network citizenship. It's easier on the popular servers which means that it's available even when they are clogged.</li> <li>Restartability. I can start a download. Freeze it. And later restart it with bittorent. For huge distros, that's a big win.</li> </ol> It's not faster for me, not usually. At least, not presuming that the primary servers are actually available and I can afford to let the download run it's course. --rich </body> </html>