[wplug] BitTorrent for downloads

[Steve Snodgrass]

On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 02:00:38PM -0500, James O'Kane wrote:
> I don't remember this being mentioned on the list. Someone pointed me at 
> BitTorrent for downloading RH9. It took me about 90 minutes to get all 
> three binary iso files. BT is a swarming P2P dealie where everyone shares 
> with everyone else the parts that they have and reduces the load on the 

I used this last night and it worked like a charm... the transfer gets
faster as it goes along and finds better connections; it didn't take long
until it was maxing out my cable modem cap at 200 kB/sec.  Be aware that
if you are behind a NAT router, you'll need to forward TCP port 6881 to
your box to get a reasonable transfer rate.

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