On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Sam Clemens
The big problem with light/moderately downloaded material is that a few people using FTP seriously detracts from the speed of the torrent...which pushes more people to the FTP...vicious circle, and soon you have a bunch of people hitting the FTP at not-too-great speeds, who, if they were ALL on the torrent, would be getting great speeds AND the suse server wouldn't be getting beat up.
It's too bad we can't make a protocol that forcibly transfers a large number of downloaders from FTP to the torrent.
Then I would go somewhere else. Bittorrent can be a good thing IF people seed. When they don't, then it's useless. And, some FTP programs can resume in case of interuption. IIRC, there's an addon to Firefox that will do just that. I've been stuck too many times watching a 99.5% torrent and been unable to do anything. With FTP, you know it will be finished and won't just hang on you. Plus, that's why there are mirrors. I always try to use a mirror instead of the main server when it's available. Plus, with all the ISPs acting like bittorrent is ONLY for stealing copyrighted material and trottling it(which may or not be the case with my verizon connection), it's just too much of a hassle. My 768k DSL has never pushed faster than 400k per second, so a 350+ kb/s download from an FTP site is better than a bittorrent that gos up and down and takes at least 2-3 times longer to do the same thing. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org