[arch-dev-public] 0.8 torrents

[Dan McGee]

On 3/30/07, Tom K <tom at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Thomas Bächler wrote:
> > Aaron Griffin schrieb:
> >> I'm currently seeding all 6, though quite poorly - I need to open some
> >> more ports but my silly router doesn't accept ranges (one at a time is
> >> nasty).
> >
> > Most torrent clients only need one port for all torrents (I think they
> > use both udp and tcp). If you need one port for each, you should use
> > another one.
> >
> >> A few other people (Thomas, Dan, stonecrest maybe, etc) are also
> >> seeding some of them.
> >
> > I can seed all 6 from Sunday on, with 1MBit bandwidth. I hope many
> > archers with enough bandwidth will join us!
> >
>
> Seeding the i686 ones here at the moment - my upload is fairly paltry,
> and I need to keep some for myself!
>
> >> Due to our recent bandwidth shenanigans, we should probably suggest
> >> the torrents over ftp download.  Perhaps when neotuli updates the
> >> download page, we can move it around so the torrents appear to be the
> >> first choice? /me shrugs
> >
> > We should, people should try the torrents first. But we need enough
> > seedeers, so that they will actually be faster than ftp.
>
> Definitely, torrents should be first choice, mirrors second,
> archlinux.org - well, never preferably. :)

I'm seeding all 6 on two computers. One of those will stay up 24/7 for
a while if we need it to.

-Dan