BitTorrent not slow, but users are clueless

[alan]

On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Tony Nelson wrote:

> I'm fairly new to Bittorrent, but it has performed well for me so far.
>
> Looking at <http://torrent.fedoraproject.org:6969> and considering that
> most users have much slower upload than download, and observing the number
> of senders, downloaders, and completed (and disconnected) downloads, it
> appears that that too many people are disconnecting when they have gotten
> their data.  Probably most of the people there have an upload speed that is
> a small fraction of their download speed, and AIUI getting fast downloads
> would need lots more senders than downloaders.

My slowness may be due to general slowness with my ISP. Considering the 
clientelle they have, they may all be trying to download FC5 at the same 
time.  No wonder it is saturated.

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