Gerhard Brauer wrote:
Am Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:31:08 +0100 schrieb Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de>:
In short: adding several webseed url the client will not only downlaod pieces from other pears but from ordinary http or ftp mirrors. This should increase the initial speed a lot and even if the user cannot use bittorrent due to firewall restriction, he still can download from several mirrors at the same time.
I would like to try this out with our new iso; what do you think about it?
I looked at this only briefly. If there is a commonly accepted, backwards-compatible (not breaking other clients) and open spec for this, then go for it. this looks cool.
Do we have any statistic or experience how often people uses torrents instead downloading the iso/img from http/ftp mirrors directly?
Maybe I'm a little too old for this technique, but make torrents not only sense when the download-source couldn't be stored completely on an server (music,warez,...). Or our FrosCon ISO, which we don't uploaded to our normal mirrors?
bittorrent is good for speed (if enough people are seeding the file) too, unless you can saturate your connection from a mirror.
But if i could download a file from a mirror (which fills my downlink bandwith), why using a torrent?
On the other hand: if adding our normal mirrors to this technique speeds up the torrent download: let's try it...
Pierre
Gerhard
Dieter