[CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads!

Thu Apr 2 16:38:19 UTC 2009
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

Karanbir Singh wrote:
> Sorin Srbu wrote:
>   
>> According to wifey, I'm one of those insatiably curious ones. ;-) Anyway,
>> that's a lot of data being shuffled! You don't see that kind of TB-amounts
>> everyday, at least I don't.
>>     
>
> here is a bit more trivia for those interested: the 4 main 'seeds' that 
> came up were each running with 100mbps open uplinks. Atleast one person 
> in the early stages was running at 200 odd mbps.
>   


geez, makes me wonder if I should even bother to leave mine running with 
a 50kbyte/sec uplink ca (thats about 500kbps)...   if I raise the cap 
much higher, it seriously throttles my home network (6Mbps in, 700k 
out)... I know, I know, I should implement some form of QoS or packet 
prioritization at my firewall.