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

2009-04-03 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of John R Pierce Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 6:38 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads! here is a bit more trivia for those

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

2009-04-03 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Robert Spangler Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 12:42 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads! If your torrent has distributed hash

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

2009-04-03 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Michael A. Peters Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 8:56 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads! I think my ISP at home has done

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

2009-04-02 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of William L. Maltby Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 3:26 AM To: CentOS General List Subject: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads! For those who may forget, usin torrents

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

2009-04-02 Thread Timo Schoeler
For those who may forget, usin torrents to download and share the new images will get you faster downloads (if enough folks participate) if you have a fat pipe and alleviate the load on the CentOS servers. I have a chubby pipe (~ 1.2MB/sec) and got the stuff really quickly earlier today.

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

2009-04-02 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 09:14 +0200, Timo Schoeler wrote: snip Hi there, there's really some traffic going on torrent-wise: [View: main] CentOS-5.3-i386-bin-DVD done 3787,1 MB Rate: 928,2 / 0,0 KB Uploaded: 142450,0 MB [View: main] CentOS-5.3-x86_64-bin-DVD done 4346,3 MB

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

2009-04-02 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of William L. Maltby Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 1:47 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads! For those who are insatiably curious

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

2009-04-02 Thread Karanbir Singh
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

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

2009-04-02 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Karanbir Singh Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 2:07 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads! Sorin Srbu wrote: According to wifey

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

2009-04-02 Thread Karanbir Singh
Sorin Srbu wrote: That's dedication... I decap my bt-client after work hours (from 1700hrs to 0700 weekdays, and full speed continuesly over the weekends). I wonder if the ridiculously high 40k-share ratio Azureus reports here has something to do with this. Hmm... the machines seeding at

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

2009-04-02 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Karanbir Singh Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 2:34 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads! Sorin Srbu wrote: That's dedication... I

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

2009-04-02 Thread John R Pierce
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

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

2009-04-02 Thread Karanbir Singh
John R Pierce wrote: 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

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

2009-04-02 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Thursday 02 April 2009 18:53, Karanbir Singh wrote: John R Pierce wrote: 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

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

2009-04-02 Thread Les Mikesell
Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Thursday 02 April 2009 18:53, Karanbir Singh wrote: John R Pierce wrote: 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.

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

2009-04-02 Thread Karanbir Singh
Marko Vojinovic wrote: Aren't these speeds a relative notion, ie. dependent on where you are as a peer? yes, which is why I said all these machines were locaed inside hosting DC's - which normally have good connectivity. One on the East coast US, one on the West Coast, one in Germany, one in

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

2009-04-02 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 22:19 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: Marko Vojinovic wrote: Aren't these speeds a relative notion, ie. dependent on where you are as a peer? yes, which is why I said all these machines were locaed inside hosting DC's - which normally have good connectivity. One on

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

2009-04-02 Thread Scott Silva
on 4-2-2009 1:36 PM Marko Vojinovic spake the following: On Thursday 02 April 2009 18:53, Karanbir Singh wrote: John R Pierce wrote: 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

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

2009-04-02 Thread Robert Spangler
On Wednesday 01 April 2009 21:26, William L. Maltby wrote: If your torrent has distributed hash table capability, I suggest that you also use that feature. Happy sharing! So what is everyone using for their torrent? What is the best? -- Regards Robert Linux User #296285

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

2009-04-02 Thread Karanbir Singh
Robert Spangler wrote: So what is everyone using for their torrent? What is the best? (rtorrent) ftw! -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522...@icq ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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

2009-04-02 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 18:41 -0400, Robert Spangler wrote: On Wednesday 01 April 2009 21:26, William L. Maltby wrote: If your torrent has distributed hash table capability, I suggest that you also use that feature. Happy sharing! So what is everyone using for their torrent? What

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

2009-04-01 Thread William L. Maltby
For those who may forget, usin torrents to download and share the new images will get you faster downloads (if enough folks participate) if you have a fat pipe and alleviate the load on the CentOS servers. I have a chubby pipe (~ 1.2MB/sec) and got the stuff really quickly earlier today. If your