On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 16:02 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> It can give better effective bandwidth for you on the download
by
> getting data from a number of peers rather than from a single server
> with limited IO capacity and bandwidth. It is also good form to
leave
> your client open after the download finishes to "give back" to the
> community by sharing your bandwidth.
Umm, lessee if I understand correctly. (The figures below are the
actual rates wget obtained for me when I downloaded the FC4 CD
ISOs.)
Seems it would depend on the number of peers operating, their aggregate
BW vs that available from a single dedicated server, your ISP's
limitations, the particular routing you are getting, load on the
server, .......
The operative word is "can" - YMMV.
Phil