Fedora Eight is out on the streets!

Alex Hewitt hewitt_tech at comcast.net
Fri Nov 9 09:18:35 EST 2007


On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 09:11 -0500, VirginSnow at vfemail.net wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 15:04:36 -0800 (PST)
> > From: Bayard Coolidge <n1ho at yahoo.com>
> 
> > Or be a Comcast customer, unless you're VERY patient.
> > Took 7.5 hours using BitTorrent, average d/l speed purportedly 145 kb/s.
> > Started at 10:21 AM EST, and finished just a few minutes ago. D/L
> > behaviour was very bursty, stalling for several minutes at a time and
> > then cranking at over 900kb/sec. I'm leaving it up for a while to "share
> 
> I heard, somewhere, that Comcast is actually being sued for violating
> net neutrality.  Supposedly, they're throttling BitTorrent traffic.
> Sorry, I don't have any links to support this; this info is purely
> from the rumor mill. :)

I downloaded the Fedora DVD distro yesterday using BitTorrent. The 3.2+
GB download only took a few hours and I noticed download speeds bouncing
around 400-500 KBs. Upload speeds were hovering around 80 KBS. Perhaps
they have backed off their throttling activities?

-Alex

P.S. I was using Ktorrent on Ubuntu 7.10.

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