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?
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? 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