[Fwd: Re: [WBEL-users] Release Candidate 2 is out!]

[donavan nelson]

I'd like to see the torrents's make it too the mirrors also.

It also looks like I'm the only one d/ling the sources.

.dn

On 03 Dec 2003 12:35:48 -0500, Joe Klemmer wrote
> I think this was meant for the list...
> 
> -----Forwarded Message-----
> From: Magnus Hedemark <magnus@yonderway.com>
> To: Joe Klemmer <klemmerj@webtrek.com>
> Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] Release Candidate 2 is out!
> Date: 03 Dec 2003 12:25:29 -0500
> 
> Joe Klemmer wrote:
> 
> > 	I've just started a torrent for all three binary cd's.  I'm on a cable
> > modem so outbound from here is slower than inbound but it's still not to
> > bad.  I'll leave them up for a day or so.
> 
> In theory torrents would be the ideal way to distribute this.  In 
> practice, ~3KiB/s is pretty bad over a 5Mbps downstream pipe.  Not 
> too many peers are on, either, indicating either that people aren't 
> interested (which I don't believe) or people are bailing out as soon 
> as their download is done, which harms the whole BitTorrent model anyway.
> 
> In the future it might be better to hold off on announcing a release 
> until the primary mirrors are sync'd up.
> -- 
> Joe "Kuramarujo" Klemmer | Current ranking: Maegashira 4
> Hoping to make Cyber-Ozeki someday but likely not to get beyond Juryo.
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