I downloaded/seeded SuSE from two different places: 1 - 35Mbps/3Mbps broadband at home office (Brazil) 2 - Full fast ethernet (100/100) hosting in USA In both cases I was able to download at full speed. The beauty of torrent is it completely eliminates any mirror choice considerations from users, it downloads from everywhere. ISPs are free to offer private torrent mirrors to reduce backbone load. No need to capture http connections with a transparent proxy for acceleration. Regional mirrors can be tuned to seed only to the optimal IP list. Don't know how much those large 10Gbps links cost... With torrent, the distributed aspect allows you to get away with 1/10th of bandwidth on the main repository and mirrors, because all downloaders become mirrors as soon as they finish their downloads, and are partial mirrors even during the download. But bandwidth is so cheap and getting cheaper every year. Torrent technology is capable of managing enormous scenarios, the most popular torrent ever resulted in one million downloads in a single day, with a peak of 16000 simultaneous users. I could only wish OpenSuSE one day will be that successful (tens of millions of downloads in the first month, perhaps 100 million installations). I don't know if it would ever make any sense in not offering http downloads anymore... It was more of a technological prowess statement than anything. Perhaps one day encourage users to use torrent anywhere possible. Its amazing looking at the torrent peer stats for 13.1, 5 seeders per leecher (downloader) or more (like 1200 seeders for 250 downloaders, 600 seeders for 100 downloaders). -- View this message in context: http://opensuse.14.x6.nabble.com/13-1-GM-tp5002933p5004088.html Sent from the opensuse-factory mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org