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Posted by AlmostBob on 10/14/11 11:41
Usenet will not reduce bandwidth
files on usenet are mime encoded or yenc encoded where a text representation
of the byte is used instead of the byte, this makes the files way larger
than the information they contain, send yourself an image included in an
email and see the size of the email compared to the original image
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If at first you dont succeed
try try try again
If at first you do succeed
try not to look surprised
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"Pappu" <fraternitydisposal@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1141389698.331633.87990@e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com...
> I've used eDonkey2000 since six months. Because my download/upload is
> limited I
>
> want to know the file sharing program which is best for saving
> bandwidth. The
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> majority of files I download is either books/documents or few mp3s.
> The main problem is that it uses lot of bandwidth and half of the
> bandwidth goes to
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> waste as it uploads the file at the same time. I've used bit comet as
> well but it also
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> consumes about double the file size (10 MB for a 5 MB file!)
> Is there any other option?
>
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