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The theory says it is supposed to be fast, but my experience tells me it is slower than many ftp (5 times slower).
WHY?
BTW, in KDE Suse, how to download with bittorent seed?
The speed of bittorent depends on your net connection, how many seeds and peers etc. Generally it is slower than ftp (in my personal experience) but is a good way of downloading your distro without crippling the ftp servers of your distro maintainer. In Suse you can use ktorrent (the version that shipped with Suse 10 is buggy and crashes a lot so I compiled the latest one from source).
The faster you are uploading, the faster your download will be. (This makes sense from an efficiency point of view because then the people who have the most upload bandwidth will get it first so that they will send it out again with maximal bandwidth .) So if your Internet connection or BitTorrent has poor upload speeds, then you will get poor download speeds. I am on a fast college network, so I get very fast BitTorrent download speeds; much faster than FTP.
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