John Hinton wrote: > Folks. This is likely to be the hardest hit CentOS has ever taken with > regards to bandwidth needs. > > I was really hesitant to use bittorrent for this type of thing for a > long time. However, it really is nice to give back at least what you > take. At the moment, I'm seeing almost 3000 connections to the > torrent. That times 3.5 gigs is a pretty huge chunk of data... and it > has just begun. > > What I'm getting at here, is CentOS gives a LOT! If you have never > considered doing your downloads via a torrent, please do consider this > and try to give back at least the bandwidth you use. I'm sure the > CentOS team will appreciate this more than you will ever know. > > Me? I'm downloading via a winders box and I use bit tornado which is > extremely flexible in setting upload and download allowances as well > as the number of connections. And it's free. I'm sure others use many > of the other aps available.. just please consider using the torrent. If someone wants to send me a cheat sheet on how to run a command line version of bitorrent, I'll throw one up on a reasonably beefy machine at the datacenter that's got multiple gigE links to the net. Cheers,