Distributing Ns 2.0
r4m3n_n00dles
Join Date: 2003-01-16 Member: 12332Members
Join Date: 2003-01-16 Member: 12332Members
<div class="IPBDescription">BitTorrent!</div> I was hearing talk about how people would like to distribute the upcoming version of NS via <a href='http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/' target='_blank'>BitTorrent</a>. Distributing the new version in this manner would possibly be beneficial for all, in that no one will be <a href='http://www.fileplanet.com/help/queue.shtml' target='_blank'>waiting in line</a> at FilePlanet, and other <a href='http://www.natural-selection.org/downloads.html' target='_blank'>less managed servers</a> wouldn’t be so damn slow. In turn, many people would get a much faster download if it started with many (20+) people (playtesters) seeding.
There was concern expressed however about using trackers of pirating sites for distributing, and I am not aware of any trackers that are not also associated in some small way with illicit file sharing.
Does NS have the ability to host it’s own tracker to coordinate BT downloads? Would this be feasible as a primary means of distribution?
There was concern expressed however about using trackers of pirating sites for distributing, and I am not aware of any trackers that are not also associated in some small way with illicit file sharing.
Does NS have the ability to host it’s own tracker to coordinate BT downloads? Would this be feasible as a primary means of distribution?
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im assuming thats sarcasm, but if it isn't fileplanet is a website that allows you to download a whole host of files from, and will probably be a mirror for the upcoming 2.0 release. <a href='http://www.fileplanet.com' target='_blank'>fileplanet website</a>
Fileplanet is it's own planet.
Would that also be known as "The planet where there are 8 perfectly good servers for the 5 people who subscribed and 4 rusty old turd buckets for the other some odd million people who just want files"?
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Because Steam is just spiffy as hell!
Would that also be known as "The planet where there are 8 perfectly good servers for the 5 people who subscribed and 4 rusty old turd buckets for the other some odd million people who just want files"?
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Yes. I actually like that people haven't figured out that it would be better to not DL from them, takes the traffic off of other servers.
ive regularly had the files im downloading off BT go 120kbps solidly until finishing after about 15minutes warmup.
and thats part of the point, if we get a load of people seeding, and leeching the bit torrent files it'll create a nice load of bandwidth.
some **** hole ^^
I managed to download the Red Hat Linux ISO's in about 6 hours or so. (1.2GB or so)
While the speed wasn't blazingly fast it was reliable.
*Edit: Wow! My first sentence made absolutely no sense.*
20 other people on broadband downloading NS? NO! THAT'S CRAZY! THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN OMIGOD!
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NS 1.0 has been downloaded over 1 million times... no reason to expect 2.0 to have less.
As many people downloading NS 2.0 as they want via bittorrent for free (even at only 20kbps) vs just a few getting it from mirrors while the rest stare at error messages because the servers are busy... Bittorrent usually wins
With 70 mirrors, however, there should be no problem. I don't think I've ever seen 70 mirrors before for <i>anything</i>.
When this isn't the case, bittorrent really shines. Efficient use of bandwidth (and $) with great scalability is nice. I think the bottleneck for BT used to be around 10k users at once, and they moved it back to well over a million.