On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 1:54 PM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 16 August 2013 17:32, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Hagar Delest <hagar.del...@laposte.net> >> wrote: > >>> If ASF does not want to do new things because no other ASF project has even >>> tried, then I'm rather worried about the future. Especially when on the >>> other side LibreOffice has a so efficient team, very good at marketing >>> their project. > >> 1. Maybe ask LibreOffice how many torrent downloads they see? That >> would be an interesting number to know. > > > > FWIW, as a user: when I get the latest LO, I always do so by torrent, > and it comes at the speed of my connection (~700kB/sec); when I get > the latest AOO from Sourceforge, it's slower (100-200kB/sec). So I > always go for a torrent of anything that's the least bit popular > (Ubuntu CD images as well). > > (sf.net being that slow is odd. Maybe I'm unlucky with which UK mirror > it gives me.) >
That could be. I get over 1.3 MB/sec from SourceForge, almost twice what you get by a torrent. The trick is to use a download manager that is smart enough to download via HTTP in parallel sections. From the perspective of an end user that gives the same speed advantage of a torrent. -Rob > > - d. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
