It can actually be slower than a regular download if the seeders have slow upload speeds. To avoid that you need several super seeders on known fast lines and the torrent seed configured to use those on priority over other users. We never had more than 2 servers that could be super seeders in past attempts.
Firefox often lets you resume downloads (I usually use the downloadthemall plugin). Is there some other easy browser feature or add-on we can recommend that has resume capability? -Alex On 12/02/2015 11:48 PM, Johan Van de Wauw wrote: > On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 11:34 PM, Brian M Hamlin <mapl...@light42.com> wrote: >> hi Hrvoje - >> >> >> >> this comes up with some regularity.. basically, torrents work well when >> there are many simultaneous downloads. >> >> The frequency and volume of OSGeo-Live downloads is not a good fit to the >> Torrent model.. >> > An advantage of torrents is that torrent clients have a good > capability of resuming an update or redownloading parts which failed. > This are nice features to have when you are on a bad line (eg > developing countries). > If we can manage to keep our torrent seeded the whole time it would > not be such a bad idea, even though it probably won't be faster than a > regular download. > > Kind Regards, > Johan > _______________________________________________ > Live-demo mailing list > Live-demo@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo > http://live.osgeo.org > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc > _______________________________________________ Live-demo mailing list Live-demo@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo http://live.osgeo.org http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc
