[ubuntu-studio-users] Upgrading offers only 15.x :-(

[Ralf Mardorf]

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