[Novalug] Is Cox blocking bittorrent?

[James Ewing Cottrell 3rd]

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 at 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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