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[Andrew Lutsenko <anlutsenko@xxxxxxxxx>]

If you have to choose just one method of distribution, then sure, torrents
are not the best.
But there is absolutely no reason to stay away from them since there is no
such limitation, we can have both mirrors and magnet links. Good portion of
tech savy people will choose p2p download because it is guaranteed to
saturate your connection for any reasonably popular torrent. And it works
well on release day.

On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 6:33 PM Andrey Kuznetsov <kandrey89@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Mirrors are better. Torrents are either not allowed on some networks or
> people don't know how to use them or don't care to install the required
> software, some of which is not malware/ad-free.
> So my suggestion is to stay away from torrents.
>
> On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 3:23 PM Andrew Lutsenko <anlutsenko@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> I think torrents are the best solution.
>> Even when servers function normally on each release there is a stampede
>> to download new binary and things slow down to a crawl. I don't know if
>> moving to CERN servers (AWS servers?) will help but torrents certainly
>> would.
>>
>> It's as simple as creating a torrent with openbittorrent.com tracker or
>> even just a magnet link relying on DHT.
>> I can help script this if needed.
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 10:32 AM Marco Ciampa <ciampix@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, Mar 09, 2019 at 01:22:39PM -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>>> > Thanks.  If we are having issues with the CERN download speeds
>>> (although
>>> > it is not entirely evident that is the issue) it would be good to have
>>> > alternate mirrors for users to try if they are having issues with the
>>> > main download server.
>>>
>>> Why not adding torrent seeds like done for the Ubuntu iso images or
>>> Libreoffice binary files? We must have a torrent tracker somewhere and
>>> that should offload servers and should solve the peak download problems
>>> if any...
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>>
>>> Marco Ciampa
>>>
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