BitTorrent is NOT always a good solution . I tried it on an approximately 4.5 Giga Bytes iso which came out to be unusable because
- direct download is taken minimum 12 hours with a 1024 kilo bits per second down load speed , in average 18 hours from Turkey . - BitTorrent download is reaching in average to 45 hours due to 256 kilo bits up loads where my PC is also used as a server for down loaders to share my downloaded parts . I am not escaping to help to other people but to find a 45 hours continuous time without destructive voltage fluctuations and nearly dedicate a PC so much time is difficult . On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Lars Eggert <lars.egg...@nokia.com> wrote: > On 2009-4-7, at 14:21, Julian Stacey wrote: > >> Perhaps some SOC student might like to develop some extension to >> fetch, or a new tool to intelligently save net bandwidth & human >> time (if not this year if SOC bids are in, then next) : >> Intelligently & automatically sniff fetch list to see where >> stuff is, measure the bandwidth, perhaps on a preliminary >> README, & automatically decide where to fetch from. >> & as 2nd stage, give up & try elsewhere if the server >> connection gets too bad. >> > > Use BitTorrent for all file distribution, it does all that. Yes, I'm half > serious. > > Lars _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"