BitTorrent question

[Tim Wunder]

On Tuesday 17 February 2004 9:02 pm, someone claiming to be dep wrote:
> quoth Tim Wunder:
> | I'm trying to download Slackware via BitTorrent and have a question:
> | Why does the first torrent, for install disk 1, only show a
> | download/upload of 4-8KBs/8-10KBs while the second torrent, for
> | install disk 2, started about 30 seconds later, shows a
> | download/upload of 150-250KBs/9-10KBs? Why is the second torrent so
> | much faster than the first?
>
> maybe the first one was already compressed?

FWIW, the first has jumped in download speed, but it's still 1/2 - 1/3 the 
speed of the second. Guess I just need more torrent users downloading Slack's 
disk 1...

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