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.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?
bittorrent is good for speed (if enough people are seeding the file) too, unless you can saturate your connection from a mirror.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?
DieterBut 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...PierreGerhard