> Jason Nielsen wrote :
>
> > I'm trying to download Slack iso's using bittorrent. I've never used it
> > before and had heard all the hype so I decided to try it. I have to say
> > I'm not overly impressed with the performance.
>
> I think its a bit late to try out BitTorrent with Slackware-9.1
> BitTorrent is a great tool in the days right after a release where
> we all can help each-other by downloading and uploading the iso.
>
> Now its 4 months after the release and there's probably not many left
> offering you download.
>
> > I figure I must have something miss-configured
>
> I don't think so, you are just a little late.
> --

I'm not sure anymore... I've now tried to use Bittorrent to download some
movies etc. at SuperNova and I get the same thing... max ~50k/s which is
about a third of what I can get if I just download directly. This is with
>30 seeds.. basically a healthy connection. This of course is not
horrible by any stretch but I guess I was expecting more as I had heard a
lot about how fast Bittorrent is... although I've read into a bit more and
it is similar to getting files through newsgroup headers which is
extremely fast on my machine ~200k/s. So I'm not sure what gives!

Cheers,
Jason