Downloading in Firefox stuck

Avi Greenbury lists at avi.co
Fri Oct 14 08:58:16 UTC 2011


Colin Law wrote:

> That would not address the issue of adding to my total up/down GB
> used, unless I set the upload very slow in which case I could,
> justifiably, be regarded as a parasite on the torrent.  Also I would
> need to disconnect from the torrent once I had fetched it, which again
> is against the principle of torrents.

You could set the upload speed to zero and you'll only ever download the
full size of the image.

It's not really against the principle of torrents per se, but it's very
much more in the principle of mirroring and is certainly more friendly
overall than pulling half a gig over HTTP.

-- 
Avi




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