More on bittorrent

[Kam Leo]

On 2/27/07, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 13:24 -0800, Kam Leo wrote:
> > > >
> > > So am I conclude that >10 hours may be what it will take. How do oyu
> > > find out how many seeders are active?
> > > --
> >
> > Use Azureus. It shows the number of seeders and peers connected to
> > your swarm.
> I used Azureus and it still looks like it would take >10 hours to
> download. Which seems to me to be less (or about the same time) as would
> take to update the original distribution using yum. So it does not look
> worthwhile to download the FC6 respin.

If you take a close look at "real time" stats posted on Fedora Unity's
site it is easy to see that usage of bittorrent makes no sense. Beyond
the initial availability announcement period there are not enough
seeders or peers to make downloading a short lived release worthwhile.
What these folks need to do is convince Fedora Core or other sites to
host their respin.

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