The "gain" for dialup users would be indirect but ultimately everyone would benefit. Those who chose to do CVSup and download ISOs from the FTP server may see an indirect gain in speed as the bandwidth load (from those downloading ISO's) would distributed to the people who wish to help seed the torrent. It would obviously be a bigger help around the time when new versions come out and the servers are being hammered.
I'm not sure if that explanation was clear or not but it seems obvious to me what the bonuses would be. On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 16:52:06 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2004-10-05 21:06, Marcus Meng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Has anyone ever considered setting up a bittorrent tracker for FreeBSD > > distributions? > > The usual methods (FTP, CVS, CVSup) work fine so far. What would that > gain for the end-user who's sitting on a slow dialup link somewhere? > > > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
