From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 8 02:57:28 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0C1E16A4CE for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 02:57:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccimhc92.asp.att.net (sccimhc92.asp.att.net [63.240.76.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 566C643D46 for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 02:57:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@nbritton.org) Received: from nbritton.org (12-223-129-46.client.insightbb.com[12.223.129.46]) by sccimhc92.asp.att.net (sccimhc92) with SMTP id <20041108025721i92002bd2re>; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 02:57:26 +0000 Message-ID: <418EE088.9000903@nbritton.org> Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 20:57:12 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Quinn Ellis References: <200411080022.08394.nbco@screaming.net> <418EBDB7.90709@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <418EBDB7.90709@gmx.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: re bittorrent X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 02:57:28 -0000 Quinn Ellis wrote: > Why do you download with bittorrent as opposed to FTP? Lets do the math... you'll note that http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/ at this moment says there's been 1978 completed downloads. Lets pick an arbitrary average size for each file downloaded: 388MB 388 * 1978 = 767.5GB 11/7@8:30PM: Now 11/6@5:00PM: Official availability of 5.3 ------------ 27.5 Hours 767.5 / 27.5 = 27.9GB/h / 60 = 465MB/m / 60 = 7.75MB/s ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- All of this data and bandwidth above has been shifted off the servers and onto the downloaders. This saves freebsd and its primary mirrors money, this is why I chose to download freebsd via bittorrent and why I'm going keep my bittorrent client open for others.