Re: [school-discuss] Downloads: Provide FTP or HTTP?

[lee rodgers <sregdoreel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bittorrent.

Tittorrent stripes or segments a file into sub-downloads. My guess is that even if your torrent isn't widely published a single file can be striped into many small CRC-checked segments (I believe I've downloaded from single-source torrents before, it worked fine).

There are a couple of lightweight bittorrent clients ... uTorrent for Windows is one ( Azureus is a bit of a CPU hog & RAM monster ). http://www.utorrent.com

/lee

Les Richardson <les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  Hi All,
>
> When providing downloads for open source software, is FTP a better 
> solution for those with slow, unreliable connections? (ie. from the land 
> of far, far away...)
>
> I'm finding many attempts in my log files to download Open Admin and they 
> only get part of the way through the file and fail and then try
>  again (ie. 
> 10+ tries to get the file).
>
> Many FTP clients allow folks to continue from a certain part of the file 
> (ie. recover), correct? (Sorry, I haven't done this stuff for quite a 
> while... the Z-modem, telix era)
>
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>
> Les Richardson
> Open Admin for Schools



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/lee
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