torrent very quick, why? (not complaining) - also desktop, upgradeable?

[Jim Cornette]

Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 21:50 -0500, Jim Cornette wrote:
>> Is there a technical reason why the torrent was as quick as it way? I 
>> never got 700k transfers before with the torrent. Usually I only get 20k 
>> to 40k transfers.
>> Upload is only 20k to feed the torrent on my machine though.
> 
> Bittorrent transfers are fast if there are a lot of systems contributing
> bandwidth.  There is only one system that is an "official" seed.  Even
> though that system is on a pretty fast link when you get a lot of people
> trying to download at the same time it can take a while.  I have a
> pretty decent link at work so I made a point of setting up a client as
> soon as the torrents were available and sharing my bandwidth.  I think
> several others did the same.
> 
> Jeff
> 

The extra bandwidth helped out considerably. I expected the download to 
take overnight and maybe longer. I was surprised that it took whatever 
700kb/sec would take in time for the ISO to download.

I left the torrent on and contributed overnight and a workday which 
contributed some, but it seemed pitiful to what was received.

Thanks!
Jim

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