Hello,
Last weekend I had my @Home server (Quad-Xeon with plenty or memory and
heavy SCSI drives) at a fried with a fast 20MBit ADSL connection.
I have tried to download the Etch DVD ISO binary 1 image and the second
time with torrent...
With the ISO download I get nearly 2 MByte/Second and the download was
done in arround 39:42 Minutes.
Then I have rebooted my Server and downloaded using Torrent... It was
realy frustrating. It took me over 3 hours.
This mean, since I have NO internet connection except GSM @home where I
live (and I am not the only one) we ned to download the stuff @work or
in Internet-Cafes where we can not wait over 3 hours... (1h cost 2-4€)
Since the first time I have tried Torrent it was a problem. Torrent is
very slow and the Disk-IO is nearly 7 times higher...
So, Torrents are no option for me.
And last not least I should note:
I have a NEW (and crappy :-/ since osCommerce is broken) onlinestore at
<http://onlinestore.tamay-dogan.net/>
and I am ongoing to sell ALL Debian CDs and DVDs which lead in a
download of more then 350 GByte (!!!) per pointrelease. I sell the CDs
and DVDs (i386, amd64 and powerpc) for normal price and the rest for an
additional fee of 3€ since I must store the Stuff and of course torture
the Debian CDIMAGE Server. 1€ of this goes directly to the SPI/FFII.
But how I sayed already, osCOmmerce is crap since it does not let me
add this option correctly including an obligated note on the invoice.
Now I am ongoing to code my own ledger using PHP5/PostgreSQL and an
Onlinestore addapted to this need...
Note: You can visit the OnlineStore but it does not work yet...
It is only for testing there.
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
24V Electronic Engineer
Tamay Dogan Network
Debian GNU/Linux Consultant
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