please use BitTorrent

Mike Chambers mike at netlyncs.com
Thu Nov 6 00:07:27 UTC 2003


On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 17:55, Peter Eddy wrote:

> In any case, I'm not convinced about bittorrent in general.  With it I 
> was averaging 60 kB/s download speed, now with regular 'ol ftp I'm 
> getting 500 kB/s (from duke.) I really like the idea of bittorrent, 
> especially helping out with bandwidth, but when I have to choose between 
> 15 hour downloads (bittorrent's estimate) and 30 minutes (ncftp's 
> estimate), there's not much to ponder.

What exact ftp url are you using?

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Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY

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