Fast and slow. BitTorrent...

[shmuel siegel]

On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 09:59, Tom Mitchell wrote:
> 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.

>From the way things look on my machine, I would think that it was more
of a load problem. For many hours I was getting twice as fast upload as
download (very strange on adsl. It could be that the source files were
not in high demand compared to the supply, whereas the binaries were
oversubscribed. As more full sets came on line, the speed improved.