Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads!

2009-04-03 Thread Sorin Srbu
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Michael A. Peters >Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 8:56 AM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads! > >

Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads!

2009-04-02 Thread Michael A. Peters
Sorin Srbu wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf >> Of John R Pierce >> Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 6:38 PM >> To: CentOS mailing list >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Don'

Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads!

2009-04-02 Thread Sorin Srbu
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Robert Spangler >Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 12:42 AM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads! &g

Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads!

2009-04-02 Thread Sorin Srbu
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of John R Pierce >Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 6:38 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads! > >&g

Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads!

2009-04-02 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 18:41 -0400, Robert Spangler wrote: > On Wednesday 01 April 2009 21:26, William L. Maltby wrote: > > > If your torrent has distributed hash table capability, I suggest that > > you also use that feature. > > > > Happy sharing! > > So what is everyone using for their torr

Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads!

2009-04-02 Thread Karanbir Singh
Robert Spangler wrote: > So what is everyone using for their torrent? > What is the best? (rtorrent) ftw! -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522...@icq ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads!

2009-04-02 Thread Robert Spangler
On Wednesday 01 April 2009 21:26, William L. Maltby wrote: > If your torrent has distributed hash table capability, I suggest that > you also use that feature. > > Happy sharing! So what is everyone using for their torrent? What is the best? -- Regards Robert Linux User #296285 http://cou

Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads!

2009-04-02 Thread Scott Silva
on 4-2-2009 1:36 PM Marko Vojinovic spake the following: > On Thursday 02 April 2009 18:53, Karanbir Singh wrote: >> John R Pierce wrote: here is a bit more trivia for those interested: the 4 main 'seeds' that came up were each running with 100mbps open uplinks. Atleast one person in

Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads!

2009-04-02 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 22:19 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: > Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > Aren't these speeds a relative notion, ie. dependent on where you are as a > > peer? > > yes, which is why I said all these machines were locaed inside hosting > DC's - which normally have good connectivity. O

Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads!

2009-04-02 Thread Karanbir Singh
Marko Vojinovic wrote: > Aren't these speeds a relative notion, ie. dependent on where you are as a > peer? yes, which is why I said all these machines were locaed inside hosting DC's - which normally have good connectivity. One on the East coast US, one on the West Coast, one in Germany, one i

Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads!

2009-04-02 Thread Les Mikesell
Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Thursday 02 April 2009 18:53, Karanbir Singh wrote: >> John R Pierce wrote: here is a bit more trivia for those interested: the 4 main 'seeds' that came up were each running with 100mbps open uplinks. Atleast one person in the early stages was running at 2

Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads!

2009-04-02 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Thursday 02 April 2009 18:53, Karanbir Singh wrote: > John R Pierce wrote: > >> here is a bit more trivia for those interested: the 4 main 'seeds' that > >> came up were each running with 100mbps open uplinks. Atleast one person > >> in the early stages was running at 200 odd mbps. > > > > geez,

Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads!

2009-04-02 Thread Karanbir Singh
John R Pierce wrote: >> here is a bit more trivia for those interested: the 4 main 'seeds' that >> came up were each running with 100mbps open uplinks. Atleast one person >> in the early stages was running at 200 odd mbps. >> > geez, makes me wonder if I should even bother to leave mine runnin

Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads!

2009-04-02 Thread John R Pierce
Karanbir Singh wrote: > Sorin Srbu wrote: > >> According to wifey, I'm one of those insatiably curious ones. ;-) Anyway, >> that's a lot of data being shuffled! You don't see that kind of TB-amounts >> everyday, at least I don't. >> > > here is a bit more trivia for those interested: the 4

Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads!

2009-04-02 Thread Sorin Srbu
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Karanbir Singh >Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 2:34 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads! > &g

Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads!

2009-04-02 Thread Karanbir Singh
Sorin Srbu wrote: > That's dedication... I decap my bt-client after work hours (from 1700hrs to > 0700 weekdays, and full speed continuesly over the weekends). I wonder if > the ridiculously high 40k-share ratio Azureus reports here has something to > do with this. Hmm... the machines seeding at t

Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads!

2009-04-02 Thread Sorin Srbu
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Karanbir Singh >Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 2:07 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads! > >Sori

Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads!

2009-04-02 Thread Karanbir Singh
Sorin Srbu wrote: > According to wifey, I'm one of those insatiably curious ones. ;-) Anyway, > that's a lot of data being shuffled! You don't see that kind of TB-amounts > everyday, at least I don't. here is a bit more trivia for those interested: the 4 main 'seeds' that came up were each runnin

Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads!

2009-04-02 Thread Sorin Srbu
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of William L. Maltby >Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 1:47 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads! > >

Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads!

2009-04-02 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 09:14 +0200, Timo Schoeler wrote: > > Hi there, > > there's really some traffic going on torrent-wise: > > [View: main] > CentOS-5.3-i386-bin-DVD > done 3787,1 MB Rate: 928,2 / 0,0 KB Uploaded: 142450,0 MB > > [View: main] > CentOS-5.3-x86_64-bin-DVD > done 434

Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads!

2009-04-02 Thread Timo Schoeler
>> For those who may forget, usin torrents to download and share the new >> images will get you faster downloads (if enough folks participate) if >> you have a "fat" pipe and alleviate the load on the CentOS servers. >> >> I have a "chubby" pipe (~ 1.2MB/sec) and got the stuff really quickly >> ear

Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads!

2009-04-02 Thread Sorin Srbu
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of William L. Maltby >Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 3:26 AM >To: CentOS General List >Subject: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads! > >F

Re: [CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads!

2009-04-01 Thread Christopher Chan
William L. Maltby wrote: > For those who may forget, usin torrents to download and share the new > images will get you faster downloads (if enough folks participate) if > you have a "fat" pipe and alleviate the load on the CentOS servers. > > I have a "chubby" pipe (~ 1.2MB/sec) and got the stuff r

[CentOS] Don't forget to use torrents for your downloads!

2009-04-01 Thread William L. Maltby
For those who may forget, usin torrents to download and share the new images will get you faster downloads (if enough folks participate) if you have a "fat" pipe and alleviate the load on the CentOS servers. I have a "chubby" pipe (~ 1.2MB/sec) and got the stuff really quickly earlier today. If y