Hehehehe.. it's funny you say that. We ocassionally have to save
people from themselves (even our own employees from time to time).
Serving a popular torrent without capping it can rack up one heluva
bandwidth bill, we've had customers going at 40 to 80Mbps for long
enough to hurt and not realize it until we call. We do usually see
those anomalies and make sure everyone knows what's up befor eit gets
*too* painful.
In reality, there are content heavy networks and user heavy networks.
The majority of the traffic goes in one direction on each of them and
it's the opposite for content or user networks. So, a torrent is most
economically hosted on a user network, where most of the traffic is
going the other way and there is lots of available bandwidth for
serving up files... and perhaps there is a large number of the actual
people who will use the torrent already there. We are a content heavy
network... hosting a torrent or beign a mirror is more expensive for
us than a user network because every Mbps is incremental to what we
are already paying for.
We, just like almost everyone at our level, pay for what we use to
some degree (some commitment, and a inflated price for uncommitted
overage). We, as anyone else, try to make the commitment as close to
what we actualyl uswe as possible without suffering overage charges.
I'd love to be a mirror for all kinds of stuff, but in reality we are
just on the wrong end of the traffic flow.
That being said, I just realied I have about 180Mbps of unused but
committed capacity in both directions on a relatively new conection
that is not loaded up yet and no customers on it. Hmm... if I get done
doin' work here at a reasonable hour, perhaps I will configure up a
torrent ! Thanks for the idea... I almost forgot about that capacity !
:o)
Mike
Quoting Doug LaRue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
** Reply to message from Michael J McCafferty
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on
Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:43:44 -0700
I downloaded
both the i386 and AMD64 images one after the other in 63 seconds and 90
seconds respectively from mirrors.kernel.org
them are some fat pipes for 700MB CD images. Have you thought of keeping
a torrent client running for a few hours to help out on the loads others are
dealing with?
Doug
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