My pet monkey insists that on Sep 23 2003 at 01:57PM Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> warbled:
> This is worse than downloading a single mirror. If every body did that the > stress on the mirrors would be much worse than it is already. The good thing > about bittorrent is that clients would get better speeds than they are > currently with only a tiny amount of extra stress put on the mirrors. > Depending on how nice clients are on average, it could actually lessen the > stress on the mirrors while still increasing overall bandwidth of downloads. TBH I don't see what bittorrent has got overly a properly configured make.conf. I used mirrorselect way back when I originally installed gentoo & have never had less than around 250Kb from the mirrors. Sure, the mirrors need a lot of bandwidth, but I'm sure they understand that when setting them up. -- .~. Terry Churchill : [EMAIL PROTECTED] .''`. /V\ ICQ : 256731870 : :' : /(_)\ http://www.doc-linux.co.uk/ `. `'` ^ ^ `-
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