hello, Lode Vermeiren wrote:
Bittorrent is indeed a good option, but it can't be the only one. Lots of us, at least here in Belgium, are on ADSL. This means that uploading directly affects your download speed, and that upload speed is generally capped at a fraction of the maximum download speed, which is 'punished' by the way BT works.
if you allow a maximum speed for uploads, your download speed will increase, and you'll be able to share sooner, so the community will agree ... the default setting for clients like azureus is not optimal. with an adsl connection in france, it works great.
Why can't openSUSE use a wider mirror system, using 'established' mirrors like mirrorservice.org, ibiblio, ftp.belnet.be, planetmirror, ... ? Most of these are SUSE mirrors anyway, why not put openSUSE under this tree and make it get mirrored automagically?
like the others, ftp is no use for such big projects as opensuse. i think bt is much more scallable and efficient than ftp (for opensuse at least). ftp is good only for updates, until bt can be used for that too. paul.