Re: BitTorrent

[Ben Russo <Ben umialumni com>]

Jarod Wilson wrote:

> Wow, what bad speeds I'm getting from RHN... Queued up my download 
> before heading out the door earlier today. It crawled along at 5k/s 
> and died after 69MB. Now I'm getting 13k/s...
>
> Enter BitTorrent. Fired that up, got the RHL9 .torrent file, and off 
> to the races! Currently pulling over 250k/s (and pushing out 15k/s; 
> cable modem). Not exactly what Red Hat wants, I'm sure, since people 
> who don't have an RHN subscription can get it, but hey. I don't feel 
> bad about it, 'cuz I DO have an RHN subscription, and now I'm helping 
> others get it too (hopefully, they have RHN subs too :).
> --
> Jarod Wilson, RHCE
> <jcw wilsonet com>
> "A wise man once said nothing at all." 

I was getting 3Kb/s downloads from RedHat all morning 3/31 EST, around 
noon I saw the bit-torrent thing on slashdot.
I killed my RHN downloads and used Bit-Torrent,   got an average of 
around 200Kb/s download speed, and averaged around 120Kb/s upload.
Got my 3 disks, the MD5 checksum worked, and I installed them already on 
a machine at home.

-Ben.