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. Interesting... the torrent is now showing just under 8000 connections! The word is getting out. Likely, CentOS is more widespread in use than most of us realize. I can only imagine what the mirrors are experiencing. And, the torrents do take loads off those mirrors, so CentOS is likely to not get as much grief about huge downloads if we can do what we can to reduce that load. Sort of like protecting our own systems.. being polite.. that sort of thing. Hmmm.. now make that 9000 torrents. JHinton > > 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. > > Best, > John Hinton > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > !DSPAM:461e6a60116687393515732! >