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I'm too paranoid to let anything even remotely resembling p2p run on any 
machine, but I hear that once you reach your quota for sharing, the 
d/l speed is amazing.  44 hours is crazy...get it from linuxiso and give 
them a few bucks for the trouble if you can spare it. :)

jenn

On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Geoffrey wrote:

> I'm trying to figure out the gain of using bittorrent.  I guess it's 
> simply the reduction of the load on mirrors and servers.  I started a 
> bittorrent to get Mandrake 10 yesterday.  Now it's 3 cds so I know it's 
> going to take a while, but right now I'm getting 11 KiB/s and have 
> downloaded 399 M.  That's barely 1/2 of one of the cds.  ETA is 44 hours.
> 
> Unfortunately, there's no easy way to get the goods via ftp.
> 
> 

-- 
Jenn Taylor
jtaylor at onlinea.com


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