John Hinton spake the following on 4/12/2007 10:19 AM: > 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. > > Best, > John Hinton I have been seeding the 4.4 i386 dvd for 3 or 4 months, and will probably seed 5 for at least that long. I was seeding the 4.4 x86_64 dvd for a while, but didn't seem to have any peers, so I stopped it. You can give back a small bit of bandwidth and not notice it, but if those 3000 people each gave back a couple of K's, that is a lot of bang and keeps the costs down for the CentOS team. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!