I'm not terribly familiar with bit torrent, so forgive me if these are novice questions, but I'm trying to understand if and how we (xastir and APRS users) can benefit from the distribution system in the sharing of our sometimes large chunks of data, like maps and VM images.
The basic premise/assumption is that many people will want to download and many of those will make the data once they have downloaded, right? If no one peering, there is nothing to download? I guess it degrades to a traditional master-client download if there's only 1 "peer". I'm trying to figure out if it's worth the effort, given our relatively small numbers, to make things like VM images, TIGER shapefiles, DRGs, DOQQs, etc available via bit torrent. -- -Jason kg4wsv _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
