re bittorrent

[Nikolas Britton]

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 at 8:30PM: Now
11/6 at 5:00PM: Official availability of 5.3
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27.5 Hours

767.5 / 27.5 = 27.9GB/h / 60 = 465MB/m / 60 = 7.75MB/s
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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.