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Re:Academic Torrents: A distributed system for sharing enorm... by mads on Monday August 29, 2016 @07:43PM (#12386309)
Same in China. The Chinese firewall throttles TCP connections making direct downloads very slow. Not uncommon to have an unbearable slow connection while browsing web pages and then when starting a torrent download, you immediately get 2 Megabytes per second download speeds here.

A tip is to use a tool like axel (https://github.com/eribertomota/axel) to do direct downloads. This will usually speed it up.

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Re:Academic Torrents: A distributed system for sharing enorm... by voltagex_ on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @02:36AM (#12387947)
>My name is Eriberto and I am not a C developer. I imported Axel from its old repository[1] to GitHub (the original homepage and developers are inactive)

Uh oh. Thanks to the repo owner for updating the README, but that's not a good situation.

I'd also like to suggest aria2c for this purpose: https://aria2.github.io/

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