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.
Interesting... the torrent is now showing just under 8000 connections!
The word is getting out. Likely, CentOS is more widespread in use than
most of us realize. I can only imagine what the mirrors are experiencing.
And, the torrents do take loads off those mirrors, so CentOS is likely
to not get as much grief about huge downloads if we can do what we can
to reduce that load. Sort of like protecting our own systems.. being
polite.. that sort of thing.
Hmmm.. now make that 9000 torrents.
JHinton
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.
Best,
John Hinton
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