Data is still coming in from the Bittorrent swap experiment. Some folks in Europe report really slooooow download times, like over an hour for the file. If your download is prohibitively slow, don't think twice about switching back to the direct MP3 feed. Please do. Before yesterday, almost everyone used the direct MP3 downloads, now if 80% of people use the Bittorrents it is still a huge gain.

I'm curious - for those of you that had really slow downloads, are you in a networking situation that prevents you from uploading? I'm not sure how that part of the protocol works but I was under the assumption that your download gets throttled down if you aren't uploading.

Thanks to everyone for your patience, and for playing along. I'm trying to push the envelope in this direction, and thus far it seems to be (mostly) working. Special thanks to all my seeding angels running Azureus or just leaving open a Bittorrent download to help be a seed. Thank you! You make this all work.