Hi, On Sat, 21 Oct 2006, Martin Schlander wrote:
Lørdag 21 oktober 2006 04:03 skrev Sid Boyce:
In my expeeeerince of bittorrent in downloading CD's, it takes days to get a set, whereas using ftp it's a matter of hours using a 10M cable broadband link. However I have set download/upload weights, it's been just too slow. If that is not the common experience, I would like to know the proper setup.
It is not a matter of setup (primarily at least), it is not a matter of protocols either.
It's a simple matter of how many people seed, their allowed upload bandwidth and their share ratio. If many people seed bittorrent can potentially be a lot faster than ftp and with a lot less load on the mirrors.
In the current state of things bittorrent is not the fastest way - but _you_ could help change that by not only thinking about your immediate convenience.
I hope Peter Czanik's offer is accepted. And that if it doesn't mean a lot of extra work we can have fast bittorrent downloads of dvd isos.
Is Eberhard out there somewhere trying to avoid this issue? Can gwdg.de seed?
The GWDG FTP servers have a different task, and I will not "pollute" them with such scripting stuff. But at release time Christoph will prepare a bittorrent seeder again at GWDG, in a different server, like he did before. Cheers -e -- Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org)