Hi,
On Sat, 21 Oct 2006, Martin Schlander wrote:
Lørdag 21 oktober 2006 04:03 skrev Sid Boyce:
In my expeeeerince of bittorrent in downloading CD's, it takes days to
get a set, whereas using ftp it's a matter of hours using a 10M cable
broadband link. However I have set download/upload weights, it's been
just too slow. If that is not the common experience, I would like to
know the proper setup.
It is not a matter of setup (primarily at least), it is not a matter of
protocols either.
It's a simple matter of how many people seed, their allowed upload bandwidth
and their share ratio. If many people seed bittorrent can potentially be a
lot faster than ftp and with a lot less load on the mirrors.
In the current state of things bittorrent is not the fastest way - but _you_
could help change that by not only thinking about your immediate convenience.
I hope Peter Czanik's offer is accepted. And that if it doesn't mean a lot of
extra work we can have fast bittorrent downloads of dvd isos.
Is Eberhard out there somewhere trying to avoid this issue? Can gwdg.de seed?
The GWDG FTP servers have a different task, and I will not "pollute" them
with such scripting stuff.
But at release time Christoph will prepare a bittorrent seeder again at
GWDG, in a different server, like he did before.
Cheers -e
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Eberhard Moenkeberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED])
