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[Simon Wells <swel024@xxxxxxxxx>]

I believe the server is located in France

Being located most distantly from the kicad download servers i have no
issues with the speeds from the download server, If we were qt and had
2.x GB downloads and the speed was complete crap like i get from qt i
would encourage torrents. but from downloads.kicad-pcb.org i normally
max out my connection (ADSL) as such i don't believe they are
necessary

On 24 February 2017 at 08:57, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 08:02:55PM +0100, Ingo Kletti wrote:
>> Am Donnerstag, 23. Februar 2017, 09:49:41 schrieben Sie:
>> > No plans currently. Do you think enough people would use them for it to
>> > really work?
>>
>> I have no idea and, as far as I understood the concept of torrents, you could
>> not tell the number of downloads, just a sum of Bytes transferred (provided
>> the tracker server keeps a record of this).
>>
>> Using torrents to distribute KiCad was an idea that came up today since the
>> next stable release is only a few days away and providing torrents could
>> probably remedy the hammering of the server during the first days.
>
> Agreed, if people would actually use them it'd be a decent way to
> lighten the server's load. I wouldn't mind it myself, certainly, but
> then I'm not a packager
>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Ingo
>>
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