[Novalug] Is Cox blocking bittorrent?

Joseph Brinkley brinkley.joseph@gmail.com
Mon Feb 2 11:39:48 EST 2009


Not all the time also the ability to throttle my own D/L and \ or resume!
without having to worry about a D/L client lie DAP or DtA!

just my opinion.

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:35 AM, James Ewing Cottrell 3rd <
JECottrell3@comcast.net> wrote:

> Not only that, but there are programs that will seek out mirror sites
> and open multiple connections to them, downloading pieces from each, and
> put them all back together.
>
> DAP from speedbit.com is one. DownloadThemAll (dta) is another.
>
> BT is a nice idea In Theory, but any serious Free Software will have
> well-connected fast direct download sites.
>
> The future is Metalink: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalink
>
> JIM
>
> ethan@757.org wrote:
> >> Would you mind explaining why that is? Seems counterintuitive.
> >> Inquiring minds want to know.
> >> Ted Ruegsegger
> >
> > Some of the distro sites have gigabit+ connections at major internet
> > peering points. So they have straightforward bandwidth, instead of
> > utilizing people all over the place and having to compute MD5 sums or
> > whatever checksums BT uses.
> >
> > But it's good that Linux gives BT legitimite use cases, cause it's nice
> > having seasons of TV shows at easy reach.
> >
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