[Mageia-dev] Proposal for Mageia: implement bitorrent protocol to allow updates download

Wed Jan 12 12:14:49 CET 2011

* andre999 (andr55 at laposte.net) wrote:
+> Michael Scherer a écrit :
+>>
+>> Le mardi 11 janvier 2011 à 20:03 +0100, Marcello Anni a écrit :
+>
+> In my case, using aria2c with 2 mirrors and the default 5 connexions is  
+> at least 3 times as fast as a single connexion (to my closest mirror).
+> And a much greater improvement over other download options I've tried.
+
+This is a selfish point of view, nothing is important except the result
+on your side.
+
+But as I can see the results of such thing on distrib-coffee I can tell:
+- often the bandwidth limititation is client side (eg you, with your DSL
+  connection, and not the mirror, with 100mbits/s or more)
+- all mirrors have limit, and when the max connection will be reached 
+  the mirror will stop serving you (download will be very faster !)
+
+Of course, if in the case I don't blacklist mageia and deny download via
+http/ftp to save my mirror (d-c is already under heavy load).
+
+So, no, don't donwload several times from a mirror.
+
+BTW: on distrib-coffee bandwidth is regulated by IP, not connection, 
+downloading 5 times will not be faster than 1.
+
+-- 
+
+Olivier Thauvin
+CNRS  -  LATMOS
+♖ ♘ ♗ ♕ ♔ ♗ ♘ ♖
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