i guess you dont keep your OS up-to-date do you? Or would you find it acceptable that it takes 5 hours for WindowsUpdate (or PackageManager) to download this week's vendor patches? If I know that this week's patch updates are going to be large, I drive into the office where I have access to a 10Mbit/sec Internet connection. If the number/size of patches is small, I'll download them via my 3G wireless card.
On another note, what's the difference between my downloading parts 1-6 of CentOS5.3 from 6 different sites concurrently, and downloading the Torrent??? I'm still going to be limited to 10Mbit/sec download. I also check the hop-count between my current peering gateway (my provider has several peering sites) and the sites from which I download the 6 parts.
Would it be better for me to use wget and download the six files one after the other from the single closest repository, or simultaneously get 1 each from 6 different sources?
stine