Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 20:57:12 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> To: Quinn Ellis <quinn1@gmx.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: re bittorrent Message-ID: <418EE088.9000903@nbritton.org> In-Reply-To: <418EBDB7.90709@gmx.de> References: <200411080022.08394.nbco@screaming.net> <418EBDB7.90709@gmx.de>
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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.
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