On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Curt, WE7U <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
--snip-- > I know nothing about bittorrent, so I don't even know if the above > is helpful in this case, but I'm passing it along anyway. > > Would it help for me to run a torrent from home too? I have 3MBit > DSL and a couple of DNS entries that point there. Hi Curt, If you download the zip file using bittorrent, most torrent clients will then automatically become a server and "seed" the file so that the host machine and internet connection participate in the file sharing. So yes, your 3MB DSL would help. I'm on a 5MBit-Down/2MBit-Up service now, so I can only contribute a portion of the 2MBit uplink, but the beauty of bittorrent is that pieces of the file are downloaded in parallel, so lots of smaller pipes can still add up. I'm fairly new to bittorrent myself. It has come in handy downloading various Linux CD's. Lee _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir