I also used the torrents when setting up my jxapi server. Now that it's
setup, I no longer use them. Because the torrents are setup to pull from
planet.osm.org as well as peers, they should always be faster than
downloading only. I had to turn off some of my torrent blocklists for
maximum speed.

> From: Toby Murray [mailto:toby.mur...@gmail.com]
> 
> I used the torrent a few times last year and seeded until the next file
> came out each time. I haven't needed a planet file in a while now so I
> haven't used it recently. Each time I used it, it was blazingly fast and
> maxed out my 2 MB/sec downstream limit for most of the download.
> 
> Toby
> 
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 2:13 PM, ant <antof...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > torrents for planet files are available here:
> > http://osm-torrent.torres.voyager.hr/
> >
> > I'm curious about how this is utilized. Have you ever used the
> > torrents? Do you use them regularly? Do you seed?
> >
> > I've picked the most recent torrents, counting:
> >
> > planet-110907: 1 seeder
> > planet-110831: 5 seeders
> > planet-110824: 3 seeders
> > planet-110817: 0 seeders
> >
> >
> > cheers
> > ant
> >
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