On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 11:34 PM, Brian M Hamlin <[email protected]> wrote: > hi Hrvoje - > > > > this comes up with some regularity.. basically, torrents work well when > there are many simultaneous downloads. > > The frequency and volume of OSGeo-Live downloads is not a good fit to the > Torrent model.. > An advantage of torrents is that torrent clients have a good capability of resuming an update or redownloading parts which failed. This are nice features to have when you are on a bad line (eg developing countries). If we can manage to keep our torrent seeded the whole time it would not be such a bad idea, even though it probably won't be faster than a regular download.
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