Buchan Milne kirjoitti viestiss��n (l�hetysaika Keskiviikko 15 Lokakuu 2003 
18:26):
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> Pierre Jarillon wrote:
> > BitTorrent is very slow, 50h is too much for my ADSL 512k/128k.
>
> <disclaimer excuse="insufficient bandwidth to play with bittorrent">
>
> And what happened on the release of 9.1? Could you even get into a
> mirror in the first few days?
>
> > I have limited max_upload at 11k and download is still low ~10k
> > Without this limitation, DL=3k and UL=16k
> >
> > During the test, it works at 55k !
> > BitTorrent needs to be upgraded. 800M in exactly 24h is not a
> > performance.
>
> Many users reported excellent speeds for the ISOs, just go read the
> comments in MandrakeClub (sure, some people didn't get such speeds, and
> some compained in the beginning but it improved).
>
> BTW, it looks from http://torrent.mandrakesoft.com:6969/ that at least
> 2658 users have complete sets of ISOs (and it seems the torrent was
> changed now to be one per CD-set instead of one per ISO?). 2658*2.1GB is
> a *lot* of data ... there's no way Mandrake would be able to pay that
> (assuming all the users who currently have the full set had used FTP
> from a Club-only FTP server).
>
Yeah, 
and if everyone would keep their torrent running *after* they have downloaded 
the ISOs to spread the load... it would be even easier/faster for people...

I for sure will keep my torrent running until the Download ISOs hits the ftp 
mirrors...

> > Where is the md5sum for this distro ?
>
> Apparently not needed with Bittorrent, though Danny has posted his in
> the Club (in the comments on the current story).
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Regards

Thomas


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