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Old 07-11-2008, 01:25 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Direct Downloads are more reliable. It's not an opinion, it's a fact. Torrents are only faster if they have a lot of seeder and peers on a good tracker. Otherwise it's really slow.

Direct Downloads almost always give you your maximum download speed. Even though some torrents, like Naruto on a release day, can go nearly twice your direct speed, most torrents don't have enough seeders to do this.




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Originally Posted by Naga View Post
if you are downloading from a dedicated server where very few people get access too, you always reach you max connection on it since its not capped.

therefore direct download is always better than torrent unless ur being capped on ddlings...
That's not exactly true. My absolute max direct download speed on an uncapped server is around 525 KB/s. I can download the latest Naruto at around 850 kB/s via torrent. But there aren't that many torrens that have as much seeders/leechers as Naruto has, so they aren't all that fast.
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