I've been playing around with BitTorrent lately and it looks like, as someone previously suggested, that it might be an interesting way to allow CLUG to host some of the things like Cluggix without requiring huge amounts of bandwidth from one source.
It looks like all we need is a bitTorrent server running somewhere (my server has one on it), then the initial distributor (Dan) would tell the torrent server about the ISO and offer it for download from his computer. Those of us with some spare bandwidth would download the ISO and have our machines also offer it for download. Once a few of us are serving it the demand on any one machine is significantly less. People downloading the ISO would get bits of it from all the machines offering it as well as anyone else downloading it at the moment. This sounds like kind of a fun thing to play with. For those who have never encountered BitTorrent before it can be found here. http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/ Anyone else interested in playing with something like this? Jeff
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