clipka wrote:
> Neeum Zawan schrieb:
> 
>>     When it comes to downloading large files or ISO's, you're shooting 
>> yourself in the foot. Bittorrent is the way to go.
> 
> Why would that be? It appears to me that my local internet connection is 
> usually the bottleneck, so it's unlikely to get me extra speed. And it's 
> not like I daily download Debian distros; and my internet connection 
> seems quite stable, too. It has been a while since some download crashed 
> on me.
> 
This is not actually the case. Well, at least with Windows. For some 
wacky reason, Windows handles "multiple" connections faster than a 
single one. Don't ask me why.. So, you are getting less than optimal 
bandwidth, if its only doing "one" thing. The other issue is, if its a 
recent posting of the file(s), then an FTP server can get hit by so many 
people it creates a bottle neck. Or, you can have a server some place 
between working funky, which creates one. Having "multiple" sources, 
unless they are all crappy connections, means that, for the most part, 
you will get your data from the "fastest" of them possible, all the 
time. I would say that I manage *better* download speeds, from 
*everyplace* I have ever downloaded, using bittorrent, than I have from 
regular FTP servers, and that is true even when I have it intentionally 
throttled to 50% of my capacity.

Oh, and that is one thing you can **not** do with FTP. FTP is blind to 
how much bandwidth you use. It will use as much as it can, sans what 
ever other processes are using. With bittorent you can "throttle" that 
down to 50%, or what ever, so, if you have other things to do, you have 
give it as much, or as little, as you want it to use, while leaving what 
ever else you are doing unaffected by the bandwidth being used by it.

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void main () {

     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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