Downloading in Firefox stuck

[Colin Law]

On 14 October 2011 09:58, Avi Greenbury <lists at avi.co> wrote:
> 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.

OK, understood.  I will do that next time.

Colin