Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 01:22:25 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: re bittorrent Message-ID: <418F1EB1.1000801@nbritton.org> In-Reply-To: <418EEDE4.1040000@nbritton.org> References: <200411080022.08394.nbco@screaming.net> <418EBDB7.90709@gmx.de> <418EE088.9000903@nbritton.org> <418EEDE4.1040000@nbritton.org>
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Nikolas Britton wrote: > 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. > Sorry, I fudged my terms up (MegaByte, Megabit).... 7.75MB/s = 62Mb/s That means you'd need a OC2 line (104Mb/s) and this is around $27,000/Month.
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