It says "the sites are believed to be..." So maybe, but maybe not.
The best way to know for sure is to try. I tried and torrent works much better for me. I find it hard to believe the assertion about minority/majority... It implies that you actually counted. On Thu, 30 Jun 2016 06:18:58 +0200 Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net> wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jun 2016 09:37:39 +0800, Roberto Verzola wrote: > >On Wed, 29 Jun 2016 15:37:08 +0200 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> On Wed, 29 Jun 2016 09:18:10 -0400, Lawrence H. Bulk wrote: > >> >(On July 21, it will be much faster if you download the new > >> >release via a Torrent.) > >> > >> Some ISPs throttle speed for torrent usage. Using torrent could slow > >> down a download very much. > >If a torrent version is available, it is the most efficient way to > >download because you are getting pieces of the file not from a single > >server but from other users who are also downloading or who have > >already downloaded the file. > > It's absolutely not efficient, if the download is throttled. > > Here is a worldwide list of ISPs known to shape torrent traffic, > https://wiki.vuze.com/w/Bad_ISPs . > > For example only one of the listed provider in Germany throttles, but de > facto all of them shape torrent traffic in Germany by the Tier > hierarchy, https://wiki.vuze.com/w/Bad_ISPs#Germany . > > AFAIK torrent is efficient for a minority of Internet users only. > > Regards, > Ralf > > -- > ubuntu-studio-users mailing list > ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users > -- Roberto Verzola <rverz...@gn.apc.org> -- ubuntu-studio-users mailing list ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users