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How to fix it

Posted Jul 14, 2008 21:37 UTC (Mon) by epa (subscriber, #39769)
In reply to: How to fix it by jengelh
Parent article: Study: Attacks on package managers

Indeed, but if the server admin set up a Bittorrent node instead of a traditional mirror site,
you'd get the same speed by BT.  And I imagine that starting up a Bittorrent client, telling
it to seed URLs x,y,z and use 500Mb/s maximum bandwidth and 500Gbyte maximum disk space is a
lot easier for the server administrator than the traditional 'mirror' script.

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How to fix it

Posted Jul 17, 2008 5:02 UTC (Thu) by dirtyepic (subscriber, #30178) [Link]

in many cases in the time it takes the BT client to contact the tracker, receive the seed/peer
data, and then establish connections to each of these seed/peers, you could have downloaded
the file directly several times over.  and you never get high transfer rates right off the bat
with BT.  It usually takes a few minutes to get up to a decent speed.