Fwd: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] BitTorrent on Libranet

[David Ross]

On Thursday 01 April 2004 01:24 am, Ralph Green, Jr wrote:
 >  It seemed to take much longer, maybe 4
>
> or 5 times as long.  I can remember a couple of 300 meg files that took
> 2 days each to get.  If I had been able to ftp them, I would have.
>
> Ralph

A friend of mine raved about BT so I tried it with the same results as
 Ralph.A 650MB file was downloading at 1-2 kbps whereas on another computer
 (on the same internet connection) it downloaded from http at 80kbps.I
 promptly gave up on BT.
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