Question regarding the torrent for FC6

Gordon Messmer yinyang at eburg.com
Wed Oct 25 20:50:53 UTC 2006


Amadeus W. M. wrote:
> 
> Torrent is a good initiative. If only it worked. Most people have
> cable/dsl connections, and their upload speed is some 20-30Kb/s. That
> means you would have to be downloading from about 20-30 people
> simultaneously to get the equivalent of 600Kb/s (and be the only one
> downloading from those people). I'm not sure this is feasible.

For most people, I think it does work.  I downloaded FC6 via torrent 
(both of which are still uploading), at about 200K in one location 
(cable modem) and 800K at another location.




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