I haven't used it very much but I did get one of my slackware isos from it just to give it a try. The idea is good but I don't think a hell of a lot of people use it. On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 08:14:04PM -0500, Sina Bahram wrote: > I've gotten around 100 to 200 kb/s from it before and talked to people > who've gotten higher: it all depends on the people and on the specific file. > For example, I would imagine a distro of Linux would be popular enough to > warrant a few hundred users at least. > > Take care, > Sina > > No trees were destroyed in sending this message; however, a large number of > electrons were terribly inconvenienced. > > -----Original Message----- > From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] > On Behalf Of Joseph C. Lininger > Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 2:35 AM > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > Subject: Re: Progress, but now... > > > I've tried bittorrent. The major problem with it is that you can't get more > than say 5 or 6 KBPS out of it. IN theory you could get more, but the > problem is that it uses the bandwidth of people who are connected, and there > just aren't that many people connected who aren't currently downloading > something themselves and consuming their own bandwidth. Maybe it's better > now, but that's how things were when I tried it. As for obtaining the > images, I could provide them to anyone who wants them. I had them up on my > ftp site for a while, but I took them down due to lack of interest. > > -- > Joseph C. Lininger > jbahm at pcdesk.net > > On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > > The asc files are just signatures. I've just looked at > > ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu, and you're right, they don't have the isos > > there, my bad. Check out: > > > > ftp://mirror.pudas.net/slackware/slackware-9.1-iso/ > > > > which has all 4 iso images, and no, it's not a U.S. site, but it will > > do, and from my own experience, it's pretty fast. I guess most people > > are using BitTorrent now, though don't ask me about that, cause I > > haven't used that download method myself yet. > > > > Greg > > > > > > On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 11:38:39PM -0500, Kyrath. (AKA Rob) wrote: > > > Hi Greg, > > > I've been on this page before and I just checked it out again. All > > > I could find on the USA and Canada sites were .iso.asc files. > > > Unless I am completely under-estimating .asc files, since I really > > > don't know what kind of files they are, the file sizes that were in > > > those .iso directories were whey too small to be cd images. > > > -- Rob > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid back.
