Progress, but now...

[Alex Snow]

I haven't used it very much but I did get one of my slackware isos 
from it just to give it a try. The idea is good but I don't think a 
hell of a lot of people use it.
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 08:14:04PM -0500, 
Sina Bahram wrote:
> I've gotten around 100 to 200 kb/s from it before and talked to people
> who've gotten higher: it all depends on the people and on the specific file.
> For example, I would imagine a distro of Linux would be popular enough to
> warrant a few hundred users at least.
> 
> Take care,
> Sina
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
> On Behalf Of Joseph C. Lininger
> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 2:35 AM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: Re: Progress, but now...
> 
> 
> I've tried bittorrent. The major problem with it is that you can't get more
> than say 5 or 6 KBPS out of it. IN theory you could get more, but the
> problem is that it uses the bandwidth of people who are connected, and there
> just aren't that many people connected who aren't currently downloading
> something themselves and consuming their own bandwidth. Maybe it's better
> now, but that's how things were when I tried it. As for obtaining the
> images, I could provide them to anyone who wants them. I had them up on my
> ftp site for a while, but I took them down due to lack of interest.
> 
> -- 
> Joseph C. Lininger
> jbahm at pcdesk.net
> 
> On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> 
> > The asc files are just signatures.  I've just looked at 
> > ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu, and you're right, they don't have the isos 
> > there, my bad. Check out:
> >
> > ftp://mirror.pudas.net/slackware/slackware-9.1-iso/
> >
> > which has all 4 iso images, and no, it's not a U.S. site, but it will 
> > do, and from my own experience, it's pretty fast. I guess most people 
> > are using BitTorrent now, though don't ask me about that, cause I 
> > haven't used that download method myself yet.
> >
> > Greg
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 11:38:39PM -0500, Kyrath. (AKA Rob) wrote:
> > > Hi Greg,
> > > I've been on this page before and I just checked it out again.  All 
> > > I could find on the USA and Canada sites were .iso.asc files.  
> > > Unless I am completely under-estimating .asc files, since I really 
> > > don't know what kind of files they are, the file sizes that were in 
> > > those .iso directories were whey too small to be cd images.
> > > -- Rob
> >
> >
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