FC5t2 - leaches gone wild!

[Elliot Lee]

On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Ian Pilcher wrote:

> Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> > Feel free to take the repeated complaining about your bittorrent
> > client off this list. There is absolutely no reason to give this list
> > summaries of your misfortune. Either restart your bittorrent client to
> > see if you can get better peers or wait patiently for it to complete.
> 
> Sorry if it came off as negative.  I was really hoping that someone
> would have some idea why my download rate was so lousy.  (Lousy being
> defined as around 1/2 of my upload rate.)
> 
> After all, if P2P downloads are going to run at 1/10th of the speed of
> traditional methods, we'll all just go back to beating the hell out of
> Red Hat's servers, not a desirable outcome.

So here's the story:
	Sometimes bittorrent will download slower.
	Sometimes it will download faster.

It will start off slower at the beginning of the download and slow down at
the end again. The fastest speed will be halfway through the download.

I do need to start looking into setting up a BitTorrent seed on the Fedora
infrastructure so that BitTorrent becomes the preferred way of downloading
Fedora. There are some old legal issues that need clearing up before this
gets done.

Best,
-- Elliot
Red Hat Summit Nashville (May 30 - June 2, 2006)
http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/