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

[Richard Houston <rhouston@xxxxxxxx>]

Hey Les,

I found with the WinOSSCDrom that the torrent file has way less hit then
the ISO I make available. I published the ISO 2 weeks after the torrent
and the hits on the ISO are almost 10 to 1 over the torrent file. I think
the torrent file is the best way to go but, it would seem that that good
old HTTP download is more popular from my experience.

I would suggest torrent file and a FTP download. I found that the FTP
seems to be a little more reliable over HTTP but a little slower. The
nice part about the ftp access is that you can do it via a browser or FTP
client.

Just my 2 cents and your millage may vary!



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> Bittorrent.
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> 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
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>
> /lee
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> 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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