[Leaplist] Re: Fedora 9

[Phil Barnett]

On Wednesday 14 May 2008 09:13:46 am Jim Hartley wrote:
> I don't know how this Bittorrent stuff is supposed to work, but I
> clicked on it. Got a window, nothing much happened for a while,
> eventually it told me it was running and would complete in TWENTY-THREE
> DAYS!!!! I thought this Bittorrent thing was supposed to be FASTER than
> a regular download.
>
> I tried a regular download, it said something like 23 HOURS. But I
> figure it's just that the server is overloaded ... a couple weeks ago I
> downloaded Fedora 8 and it took about 3-4 hours. I'll wait s few days
> for the rush to calm down, then try again.
>
> By the way, if you use Bittorrent, how do you control where it puts the
> file? It seems to default to the Windoze-inspired stupidity of putting
> it on the Desktop, which I HATE! I put stuff in a "dl" directory, but I
> guess I wouldn't mind TOO much if it used the "Downloads" directory
> which Fedora 7 gave me automatically on creation of a new userid (WHY
> name things with mixed-case names? It's a nuisance to type!).

I don't know what kind of bandwidth you have or what client you are running, 
but bittorrent is faster when there are more people downloading and regular 
downloads are faster when there are less people downloading.

For Windows, the fastest downloading client appears to be BitComet.

http://www.bitcomet.com/

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