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I fin­ished down­load­ing Fedora Core 6 using the Bit­tor­rent pro­tocol in about two days. The down­load speed was 90Kbps (1Mbps down­stream link).

It is inter­est­ing to note that quite often, down­load­ing files with Bit­tor­rent does not yield good speeds. One reason could be the traffic shap­ing that the ISP may imple­ment (not common). Another reason is the oper­at­ing system places a limit on the number of con­cur­rent half-​open con­nec­tions. This is espe­cially true when there are 2000+ users in the swarm and the down­load speed is stuck to 0. For example, Win­dows XP SP2 sets the limit to 10, which makes it slow for your tor­rent client to pick up the fast­est down­load bud­dies in the swarm. In other cases, the modem may not be cap­able to handle sev­eral con­cur­rent con­nec­tions and drops the link.

Are there any other problems?

Tags: Linux, open-source //