DoktahSatan

Did the US government offer you any support or compensation after your release? Did you feel like it was enough? Would you go to war for your country again?

From wiki:

Another way to initiate a DCC session is for the client to connect directly to the DCC server. Using this method, no traffic will go across the IRC network (the parties involved do not need to be connected to an IRC network in order to initiate the DCC connection).

I have nothing to do with Infinit, and can't really comment on how it works, but I do know a bit about torrents. ;) /pun

When you download a torrent file and run it in your client, it connects to many computers which are hosting the file(s). Those computers then begin sending pieces of the file(s), and as you collect up those pieces, your computer reassembles them. This is great if many users already have the file(s), as each connection may not be that fast, but together, they are faster than any one alone.

However, if there is only one computer hosting the whole file (seed), and one user attempting to download the file (leech), the leech is limited by the seed's ability to upload. If the seed cannot exceed X kb/s upload, the leech will not be able to download faster than X kb/s.

This continues as more seeds and leeches (peers) are added to the mix, but it gets a bit more complex (because leeches are also sending pieces, and are drawing bandwidth from other peers).

There may be peers who cannot connect to you for whatever reason. That usually isn't a huge problem, but it can change the speed you can expect.

There are settings in your client (upload/download limits, number of peers your client will connect to), and also the clients of peers.

Your client may decide that some pieces are not correct, and download them again, so it's still going fast, but it may be wasting some of that speed.

There is some data sent and received that is not part of the file(s) called "overhead".

Your connection also limits you to a certain speed, so you won't be likely to exceed that.

There are other variables such as super-seeding. There are probably tons more I know nothing about. (I'm just a user, after all)

As a result of all of this, it's difficult to say what kind of speed to expect from a torrent. There are a lot of variables to consider. That's why people often download whichever torrent has the most seeds, or best "health", and just hope for the best.

I have no idea how Infinit works, so I'll leave that part of the question, and comparison, to someone else. I just figured after 7 hours, someone may as well attempt an answer. Sorry this was all I could provide.

tl;dr: Torrents don't really give you a specific speed. I am not affiliated with Infinit, and I know nothing about them. Therefore, I can't comment on what speeds to expect with Infinit.