It would be a good alternative to have, although we know various ISPs (e.g. comcast) are interfering with bittorrent, so it has good and bad sides.
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Wade Brainerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would it be worth setting up a BitTorrent tracker for builds? > > BitTorrent is very reliable, excellent at resuming, doesn't require command > line use, and can take advantage of local seeds. > > Best, > Wade > > 2008/6/9 Carol Lerche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Here is what I did when I was fighting battles with an unreliable >> connection a few months ago. (It doesn't solve the cost of downloading, but >> it does solve the lost connection problem). Use >> >> wget -c url-of-the-wanted-file >> >> This command line program will allow you to resume the download again and >> again when the inevitable happens and the connection is lost. If you find >> that it downloads more reliably if you limit the bandwidth, there is another >> option to set a rate limit, namely: >> >> wget --limit-rate=20k -c url-of-the-wanted-file >> >> (the rate is given in bytes per second, so the above example is 20,000 >> bytes per second). >> >> Living at the far end of the DSL reaches, wget is my favorite program! >> >> Regards, >> >> Carol Lerche >> >> >> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 12:29 AM, James Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> No, FTP is not more reliable, if you have a problem with HTTP downloads >>> of the image you will have the same problems with FTP. >>> >>> Yes, it can be made available in smaller chunks, but it is best to >>> download it with a restartable downloader, which recovers from >>> interruptions. wget on Linux can do this, as can rsync. There are >>> restartable downloaders available for other operating systems. Ability >>> to restart at last known point after an interruption is inherent in the >>> HTTP, FTP and rsync protocols. But many HTTP clients do not use the >>> feature. >>> >>> Yes, there is a better way of making new builds and updates available, >>> and that is the olpc-update mechanism. It restarts from where it was >>> disconnected as well, since it uses rsync. >>> >>> -- >>> James Cameron mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://quozl.netrek.org/ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Devel mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> "Always do right," said Mark Twain. "This will gratify some people and >> astonish the rest." >> _______________________________________________ >> Devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >> >> > -- "Always do right," said Mark Twain. "This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
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