pimp my download

[Evan Monroig]

You are right. This is why on most BT websites they tell their users
to leave the BT open at least so that you upload as much as you
downloaded..

On Apr 8, 2005 7:25 PM, Vincent Trouilliez
<vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:
> > ...but after getting the .torrent is there a server involved anymore?
> > I think that you get the actual file from several different people who use Bittorrent
> > too and have already downloaded the bits you don't yet have. I may be wrong though.
> 
> Is BT really that magic, that one server and is enough to feed the
> entire world ? I am impressed...maybe it's true, it would explain why I
> get only 60KB/s no matter what mirror I try...
> However, most people I guess stop their BT client once they have
> finished to download the file, so with the hugh gap there is between DL
> and UL BW (8:1 ratio for me: 1024K DL but only 128K UL...), BT off-loads
> the server a bit but can't possibly do without it... I think ?
> Waiting for some BT guru to correct me ;o)
> 
> --
> Vince, stuck at ~60KB/s.... 1h30min remaining.... eternity...
> 
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