Just reading that myself...
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-command-line-bittorrent-client.html
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From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
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Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 10:26 AM
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Subject: Re: CentOS 5 and bittorrent
John Hinton wrote:
> Folks. This is likely to be the hardest hit CentOS has ever taken with
> regards to bandwidth needs.
>
> I was really hesitant to use bittorrent for this type of thing for a
> long time. However, it really is nice to give back at least what you
> take. At the moment, I'm seeing almost 3000 connections to the
> torrent. That times 3.5 gigs is a pretty huge chunk of data... and it
> has just begun.
>
> What I'm getting at here, is CentOS gives a LOT! If you have never
> considered doing your downloads via a torrent, please do consider this
> and try to give back at least the bandwidth you use. I'm sure the
> CentOS team will appreciate this more than you will ever know.
>
> Me? I'm downloading via a winders box and I use bit tornado which is
> extremely flexible in setting upload and download allowances as well
> as the number of connections. And it's free. I'm sure others use many
> of the other aps available.. just please consider using the torrent.
If someone wants to send me a cheat sheet on how to run a command line
version of bitorrent, I'll throw one up on a reasonably beefy machine at the
datacenter that's got multiple gigE links to the net.
Cheers,
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