Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Neeum Zawan wrote:
> 
>>     If your Internet connection is slow, then perhaps it makes no
>> difference. On some servers, downloading an ISO is as slow as 100 KB/s.
>> Using Bittorrent, I can max out my connection (over a MB/s).
> 
> Well, in theory BT makes it easier to get good download rates. In
> reality, using BT is like downloading anything else; sometimes you get
> good speeds, and sometimes you don't. It depends what you're trying to
> download. (E.g., try obtaining some old version of Debian. You'll find
> it has, like, 3 seeds and no other clients, and it still takes weeks to
> download. Try getting the latest version and you should have no
> trouble.) It's not much different than the variable download rates
> single servers provide.

But you're being nicer to the mirror providers, because you're not helping 
overload a single server.

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