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Re: Secondary CD/DVD Image Downloading



On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 06:24:03PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Am 2008-08-07 19:21:03, schrieb Bumpy Light:
> >   "If you can, please use a BitTorrent client. Not only does this greatly 
> >   reduce technical and financial stress on our voluntary mirrors, downloads
> 
> HOW does this reduce it?
> 
> The only difference will be you get 5000 different IP's in the log which
> are downloading only 500 MByte each instead of 250 downloading 4,7 GByte

Because very few voluntary mirrors seeds ISOs (however I am not a fan of
BitTorrent/P2P for Debian ISO and moreoever for packages).

-- 
Simon Paillard


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