Fast and slow. BitTorrent...

[Tom Mitchell]

Downloading the latest FC2-test2-binary-i386 and FC2-test2-src-i386
via torrent I got more than an order of magnitude download speed
difference in the two.

FC2-test2-src-i386 arrived at full speed and FC2-test2-binary-i386
arrived at one tenth the speed.  Is this because of grab and gone
folks, lots of asymmetric links like my own DSL or is there a scaling
issue.

At this later hour in the day I Just restarted FC2-test2-binary-i386
and the slow is finishing at full speed.    http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/

Are there statistics kept near and far that can shed light on this.

Is is possible with the magic of symbolic links to generate multiple
torrents that are geographically friendly? (assuming that that is the issue).

Now I am at one third link speed. While still better than
http from an overloaded server,,, I wonder.


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