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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > talk mailing list > > talk@openstreetmap.org > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk