BitTorrent question

[Net Llama!]

That's not really how BT works.  Everyone downloading is also uploading.

On 02/17/04 18:58, Mike McKinlay wrote:

> I believe the download speed depends on how many people are currently logged
> on and using torrent, as it uses a files sharing system. They must also have
> the files you need on their system. Hope I not stating the obvious. lol 
>                                          Mike 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-users-bounces at smtp.linux-sxs.org
> [mailto:linux-users-bounces at smtp.linux-sxs.org] On Behalf Of Tim Wunder
> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 6:35 PM
> To: linux-users at linux-sxs.org
> Subject: Re: BitTorrent question
> 
> 
> 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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