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[Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Does anyone have stats on what the typical bandwidth transfer is from the
download server over time (such as when there is a release)?  If there is a
problem (i.e. the current server slows down too much or costs too much when
there is a release and lots of people download at once), it would be useful
to know the scale of the problem to be able to think about what possible
solutions would be most effective (such as torrents, using a CDN, etc)

-Jon

On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 4:07 PM, Simon Wells <swel024@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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