John Hinton spake the following on 4/12/2007 10:19 AM:
> 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.
>
> Best,
> John Hinton
I have been seeding the 4.4 i386 dvd for 3 or 4 months, and will probably seed
5 for at least that long. I was seeding the 4.4 x86_64 dvd for a while, but
didn't seem to have any peers, so I stopped it.
You can give back a small bit of bandwidth and not notice it, but if those
3000 people each gave back a couple of K's, that is a lot of bang and keeps
the costs down for the CentOS team.
--
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You hope everybody uses it, and
you notice quickly if they don't!!!!
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