[CS-FSLUG] anyone know when?

[Josiah Ritchie]

On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 13:34, listmail at rotundus.com wrote:
> Quoting Josiah Ritchie <jritchie at bible.edu>:
> 
> > > Not sure how you feel about it, but "BitTorrent" has the ISO for
> > > Mandrake 10 available now.
> >
> > BitTorrent is pretty cool. I haven't messed with it much, but it sure
> > was the way to go when I needed Knoppix a few weeks ago. I couldn't get
> > satisfactory speed anywhere else. I don't think it's bad as long as you
> > are using it for legal results. :-)
> 
> I had a terrible experience bittorrenting Mandrake 10 - Official.  Plenty of
> people willing to download from me, but in terms of download rate I was only
> getting a few KB/s.  With the incredibly high upload/download ratio that I was
> getting, I was beginning to think that Mandrake should be paying me rather than
> vice-versa.
> 
> I ended up capping the upload rate at 20KB/s and leaving it running on a VNC
> session... took maybe a week to get the thing downloaded

Your ability to pull down is affected by how much you put out. You will
be slow at first, but it picks up pretty quickly. It may have gone
slowly because you capped them out at 20K.

JSR/