More on bittorrent

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Wed Feb 28 15:46:31 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 14:22 -0800, Kam Leo wrote:
> On 2/27/07, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 13:24 -0800, Kam Leo wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > So am I conclude that >10 hours may be what it will take. How do oyu
> > > > find out how many seeders are active?
> > > > --
> > >
> > > Use Azureus. It shows the number of seeders and peers connected to
> > > your swarm.
> > I used Azureus and it still looks like it would take >10 hours to
> > download. Which seems to me to be less (or about the same time) as would
> > take to update the original distribution using yum. So it does not look
> > worthwhile to download the FC6 respin.
> 
> If you take a close look at "real time" stats posted on Fedora Unity's
> site it is easy to see that usage of bittorrent makes no sense. Beyond
> the initial availability announcement period there are not enough
> seeders or peers to make downloading a short lived release worthwhile.
> What these folks need to do is convince Fedora Core or other sites to
> host their respin.
I agree.
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