Most modern bittorrent client support web seeds, that is using an http-hosted file as a seed for the torrent. Ad the speed from that server to the other people who are downloading and you have much better speeds than if you were to simply download straight from the server. Add to this all the other bittorrent features, like resuming a broken download, and improved error checking and you have a very powerful downloading strategy.
Just take a look at burnbit: http://burnbit.com/ which takes a normal hosted file on the internet and turns it into a torrent. Everyone wins!
Count yourselves lucky. Here in New Zealand we have third world internet. For $40 NZD a month with our plan we get a 15 GB data cap (Uploads and downloads) with data used between 1am and 7am not counting towards that limit. We also have a 256kbps download and 128 kb upload limit. How does that sound eh? This months data usage for a household of 5 was 32GB, and that was a busy month.
Count yourselves lucky.
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In other news, spam out of Egypt almost completely ceased during the internet blackout!
I wonder if anyone has patented running Linux on a toaster...
Most modern bittorrent client support web seeds, that is using an http-hosted file as a seed for the torrent. Ad the speed from that server to the other people who are downloading and you have much better speeds than if you were to simply download straight from the server. Add to this all the other bittorrent features, like resuming a broken download, and improved error checking and you have a very powerful downloading strategy. Just take a look at burnbit: http://burnbit.com/ which takes a normal hosted file on the internet and turns it into a torrent. Everyone wins!
Seems to be a lot of that lately: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10547079&ref=rss
Count yourselves lucky. Here in New Zealand we have third world internet. For $40 NZD a month with our plan we get a 15 GB data cap (Uploads and downloads) with data used between 1am and 7am not counting towards that limit. We also have a 256kbps download and 128 kb upload limit. How does that sound eh? This months data usage for a household of 5 was 32GB, and that was a busy month. Count yourselves lucky.