Re: Could we get the FreeBSD torrent servers back?

2007-02-25 Thread Thomas Norris
On Feb 25, 2007, at 8:02 PM, Joe Holden wrote: < huge quote tree> I would be happy to host torrents.freebsd.org (aswell as the tracker and torrents themselves)if no one else has offered. Ta, Joe I'm willing to seed from my 10mbit pipe at a datacenter and at home if you do. -- Tom _

Re: Could we get the FreeBSD torrent servers back?

2007-02-25 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Feb 25, 2007, at 6:50 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: What your talking about only works if you have a large group of FreeBSD volunteers that are willing to run the torrent servers. Let's assume that only 0.01% of any population group would step up to the plate to offer a torrent server. W

Re: Could we get the FreeBSD torrent servers back?

2007-02-25 Thread Joe Holden
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: - Original Message - From: "Chris Slothouber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 10:02 PM Subject: Re: Could we get the FreeBSD torrent servers back? Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: - Original Message - From: &q

Re: Could we get the FreeBSD torrent servers back?

2007-02-25 Thread Jeff Mohler
Oh ya..i agree. I was being a futurist, not a realist. On 2/25/07, Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - Original Message - From: "Chris Slothouber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 10:02 PM Subject: Re: Could we get the FreeBS

Re: Could we get the FreeBSD torrent servers back?

2007-02-25 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
- Original Message - From: "Chris Slothouber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 10:02 PM Subject: Re: Could we get the FreeBSD torrent servers back? > Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > - Original Message - > > From: "

Re: Could we get the FreeBSD torrent servers back?

2007-02-25 Thread Randy Pratt
On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 03:29:37 -0500 Chris Slothouber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > > Chris Slothouber wrote: > > > >> But isn't the whole point of peer to peer file distribution to > >> *distribute* the bandwidth requirements to the point that the costs > >> involved fo

Re: Could we get the FreeBSD torrent servers back?

2007-02-25 Thread Chris Slothouber
Andrew Lentvorski wrote: Chris Slothouber wrote: But isn't the whole point of peer to peer file distribution to *distribute* the bandwidth requirements to the point that the costs involved for each of the individual peers is trivial but the client receiving the file still obtains full speed o

Re: Could we get the FreeBSD torrent servers back?

2007-02-25 Thread Jeff Mohler
It would be a facinating experiment if a lrge group of Fbsd users at 1000s of hosts were recruited as supporters to the Fbsd Organization..to host some subset of critical files. It would be super neato if you could configure what you wished to donate via a tool that would populate your box wi

Re: Could we get the FreeBSD torrent servers back?

2007-02-25 Thread Andrew Lentvorski
Chris Slothouber wrote: But isn't the whole point of peer to peer file distribution to *distribute* the bandwidth requirements to the point that the costs involved for each of the individual peers is trivial but the client receiving the file still obtains full speed of a direct download? Yes

Re: Could we get the FreeBSD torrent servers back?

2007-02-24 Thread Chris Slothouber
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: - Original Message - From: "Andrew Lentvorski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 6:38 PM Subject: Could we get the FreeBSD torrent servers back? Can we please get the FreeBSD torrent tracker and/or server back? (snip

Re: Could we get the FreeBSD torrent servers back?

2007-02-24 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
- Original Message - From: "Andrew Lentvorski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 6:38 PM Subject: Could we get the FreeBSD torrent servers back? > Can we please get the FreeBSD torrent tracker and/or server back? > > I was sitting he

Could we get the FreeBSD torrent servers back?

2007-02-24 Thread Andrew Lentvorski
Can we please get the FreeBSD torrent tracker and/or server back? I was sitting here staring at an FTP from ftp5.us.freebsd.org that was bouncing around between 200-250KB/s. Even switching over to ftp1.us.freebsd.org is only getting me around 450KB/s-and that is bouncing up and down (my uploa