[wplug] BitTorrent for downloads

[James O'Kane]

This one time, at band camp, Scott Bourns said:

> 90 minutes? Whoah.
> 
> What kind of access did you use? Bandwidth?

Who wants to make some guesses how far I am on some of my email?

I don't know exactly what type of connection the university has, my
desktop had gigabit, but I don't think that extends outside the
department. I remember the ftp download from redhat itself died after 6 or
7 hours.  Given enough peers, bittorrent makes your connection the
bottleneck instead of the server.

-james

> On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 14:00, James O'Kane wrote:
> > I don't remember this being mentioned on the list. Someone pointed me at 
> > BitTorrent for downloading RH9. It took me about 90 minutes to get all 
> > three binary iso files. BT is a swarming P2P dealie where everyone shares 
> > with everyone else the parts that they have and reduces the load on the 
> > server.
> > http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/index.html
> > 
> > -james
> > 
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