[gameprogrammer] Re: Linux for game programming

  • From: Daniel Schlyder <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 11:24:41 +0200

Kevin Jenkins:
> I tried bittorrent and have to strongly discourage others from using it.
> Not only did it freeze my system when using firefox, but it downloads at
> about 18KB/s compared to 500KB/s from the FTP I am currently using.

Sounds like a poor or badly configured client. If you set a low upload limit,
this will affect your download speed. I'm downloading there now at 220 KB,
which maxes out my line. If you want to download torrents again in the future,
Azureus is a good client.

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Daniel Schlyder
http://bitblaze.com/



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