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Subject: Re: re bittorrent
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Nikolas Britton wrote:

> Quinn Ellis wrote:
>
>> Why do you download with bittorrent as opposed to FTP?
>
>
> Lets do the math...
> you'll note that http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/ at this moment says 
> there's been 1978 completed downloads.
> Lets pick an arbitrary average size for each file downloaded: 388MB
>
> 388 * 1978 = 767.5GB
>
> 11/7@8:30PM: Now
> 11/6@5:00PM: Official availability of 5.3
> ------------
> 27.5 Hours
>
> 767.5 / 27.5 = 27.9GB/h / 60 = 465MB/m / 60 = 7.75MB/s
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>
> All of this data and bandwidth above has been shifted off the servers 
> and onto the downloaders. This saves freebsd and its primary mirrors 
> money, this is why I chose to download freebsd via bittorrent and why 
> I'm going keep my bittorrent client open for others.

Also, to put this into terms of money, a fractional T3/DS3 line will 
cost around $7,000/Month.