How to fix it [LWN.net]

How to fix it

Posted Jul 17, 2008 5:02 UTC (Thu) by dirtyepic (subscriber, #30178)
In reply to: How to fix it by epa
Parent article: Study: Attacks on package managers

in many cases in the time it takes the BT client to contact the tracker, receive the seed/peer
data, and then establish connections to each of these seed/peers, you could have downloaded
the file directly several times over.  and you never get high transfer rates right off the bat
with BT.  It usually takes a few minutes to get up to a decent speed.

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