On Sunday 04 May 2008 09:00:17 pm Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Sunday 2008-05-04 at 20:38 -0400, Larry Stotler wrote:
Maybe you misunderstood. I meant I try to use a mirror when I do an FTP transfer. When you get right down to it, bittorrent is ok for popular files, but anything that gets old has less and less people seeding. I can go right now to a SuSE mirror and probably pull the v10.0(or 10.1 if the 10.0 ones are pulled because of age)isos at full speed. Very doubtful that anyone is still seeding them. While torrents help balance the load across many connections, popularity is the biggest problem. Maybe if you could get all the FTP mirrors to also share the files via torrent, that would improve things.
In your last sentence above you hit the nail: the big servers have to be an important part of the torrent swarm. If nobody else is seeding, the download would at least go as fast as the same server serving ftp, and even faster if people downloading it also seeds. But it is very important that at the nucleus are the big servers feeding it to everybody wanting it.
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