[ubuntu-uk] Kubuntu

[Tony Arnold]

Tristan,

Tristan Wibberley wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 19:03 +0100, James Hargreaves wrote:
>> For anyone downloading Kubuntu 7.04 desktop i386 , I suggest using the
>> HTTP download, the torrent is much slower (>25kbps compared to ~70kbps
>> for HTTP) at the moment.
> 
> Are you on British Telecom? I heard a rumour that bittorrent was
> throttled and I was getting both slow download and slow upload for
> Ubuntu 7.04 desktop i386 on Friday night. (bittorrent download was
> estimated to take 17h, while HTTP download took 19 minutes).

I'm with Pipex who resell BT ADSL, effectively and I know that
bittorrent is throttled to about 25kbps. I can set up a VPN to work and
overcome this though! A bit cheeky, but it works!

> Is there any way to test this throttling theory?

Searching the suppliers terms and conditions might turn up something. If
you can set up a VPN to somewhere, then that might verify it.

Regards,
Tony.
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