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BitTorrent hosting for Mandrake 9.1 ISO's

BitTorrent hosting for Mandrake 9.1 ISO's

Posted Mar 26, 2003 14:44 UTC (Wed) by eyal (subscriber, #949)
In reply to: BitTorrent hosting for Mandrake 9.1 ISO's by raph
Parent article: Mandrake Linux 9.1 released

Downloading as suggested with BitTorrent seems to be faster than "normal" download (even with a segmenting download manager), and the concept is great.

However the speed, at least for me, didn't start at 20kB/s and went up. Instead it started around 10, then dropped to 2-5, and from then on it's constantly chaging anywhere from 2 to 30.

I'm not sure if this temporary or normal, and as I said it's faster than downloading from the overloaded servers, however adjust your expectations to more realistic figures.

EZ.


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