** get rons tranny vid NOW!** was: ok,so who wants rons

[drew at scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca (Drew MacPherson)]

OK, has anyone actually installed BitTorrent on Linux?

Their web site is seriously lacking in documentation.

Drew


On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Allyn wrote:

> umm, how about getting on said high speed connection, downloading it (with
> bittorrent), then hosting it.
> better yet, if you leave the client running on that fast box, it will
> provide the file to all other bittorrent downloaders with all of its awesome
> bandwidth...
> Al
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Drew MacPherson" <drew@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca>
> To: "Allyn" <amalventano@sc.rr.com>
> Cc: "Scirocco List" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 4:46 PM
> Subject: Re: ** get rons tranny vid NOW!** was: ok,so who wants rons
> 
> 
> >
> > I'd love to provide a highspeed internet (and even higher speed Internet2
> > (for those so blessed as to work/attend gov't/reserach/educational
> > institutions,)  and for that matter, soon to be impossible speed Ca*net4
> > (can you say 1GB/s?) mirror of this file, if only
> > someone could get it to me...!
> >
> > Drew
> >
> > On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Allyn wrote:
> >
> > > be sure you dont have upload limit set too high, it will choke your
> download
> > > also, the speed you will get is determined by the max send rate of your
> > > peers (i.e. others downloading)
> > > sorry you're not getting 300k/sec, but that aint gonna happen, unless
> > > someone here can host a 300 meg file for a hundred people to download at
> t3
> > > speeds...
> > >
> > > > cable-type it suuuucccccckkkkkkss
> > >
> > > well, its better than 0k/sec (i.e. not getting it at all)
> > >
> > > Al
> >
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