BitTorrent question

[Net Llama!]

On 02/17/04 17:54, Tim Wunder wrote:

> 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?

Because each one has different people connected, and the people that 
you're downloading from are uploading at different rates.

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