Re: [Cialug] bittorrent

[David Champion <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

neal daringer wrote:

> what uses do people on the list use bittorrent for? i've only seen it 
> used on a few sites. just wondering if there really is much of a 
> userbase with it.

Mandrake uses it to distribute ISO's. A lot of game companies use it to 
distribute patches and demos.

I tend to use the "btdownloadcurses.py" (part of the "bittorrent" rpm on 
Mandrake) for downloads. I just start a screen session, and let it go.

It's really pretty smart of these companies to use it - the "server" 
only runs the tracking data on what client has what chunk available. 
Most all of the bandwidth comes from the other clients.

Here's a site I use to get a lot of game patches from:

http://www.filerush.com/

-dc


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