[CentOS] A new bitorrent record?

Thu Dec 29 04:33:52 UTC 2005
Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com>

On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 22:30 -0500, Chris Mauritz wrote:
> One of our interns had to run down to the datacenter today and rescue an 
> ailing 4.2 machine and the decision was made to just do a fresh install 
> and restore a backup from last night.  The only problem was that she had 
> forgotten the 4.2 DVD in the office, a 2 hour drive back and forth.  So 
> I suggested she fire up her notebook which has a DVD burner and download 
> the DVD via bitorrent instead.  So she plugged her notebook in to a free 
> port on our core switch and had the entire DVD downloaded in under 20 
> minutes.  Yow!!!
> 
> So I thought I'd offer a big thanks to those of you who keep the ISO 
> available for download.
> 

Your welcome ... now if we can maintain the speed through the next
update cycle, that would be GREAT :)
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