Bittorrent Release
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Join Date: 2002-06-03 Member: 728Members, Constellation
Join Date: 2002-06-03 Member: 728Members, Constellation
<div class="IPBDescription">Please?</div> 2.0 is going to be a huge release, rivaling that of DoD 1.0... Well, hopefully. Getting any kind of game file the day of is a massive pain. Lines, slow download speeds, and general not coolness.
This idea was brought up a couple months ago, but now that 2.0 has a release date, I'd figure I'd try to get a more definite answer. For those of you that don't know Bit Torrent is a file sharing system, totally legal, used to distribute bandwith consuming, high demand files. For information about how it works... <a href='http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/index.html' target='_blank'>click</a>
I think this should be seriously considered by the NS team. Its fast, its free, and it'll make opening day run a whole lost smoother.
This idea was brought up a couple months ago, but now that 2.0 has a release date, I'd figure I'd try to get a more definite answer. For those of you that don't know Bit Torrent is a file sharing system, totally legal, used to distribute bandwith consuming, high demand files. For information about how it works... <a href='http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/index.html' target='_blank'>click</a>
I think this should be seriously considered by the NS team. Its fast, its free, and it'll make opening day run a whole lost smoother.
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If you want a Bittorrent release, organize it. Get people together who will be willing to put the file up for sharing. Track down someone with uber bandwith willing to get the ball rolling. You have a month to get some people interested in it, so get cracking! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
While that certainly is true, since everyone won't be finishing at the same time the file chunks will still distribute across the peers properly. It's in EVERYONE's best interest to use bit torrent. It minimizes Flayra's bandwidth costs and maximizes our download speeds. Bit Torrent links are also very very simple to set up. All you have to do is create a tracker, and then open a download window. Done.
It would be great if the community took it upon themselves to do this, but it would be much preferable to have an official endorsement. I want to prove once and for all that P2P networking has an essential place in the internet, and releasing a high profile mod on it is one way to do that. The Redhat ISO release has already done that to some extent but thats just those <sarcasm>communist open source geeks</sarcasm>.
BitTorrent is an infinitely preferable alternative to a direct download. I hope/wouldn't-be-suprised-if it becomes the standard protocol for high profile releases.
This day (unfortunately for me) falls on a Thursday, so what will most likely end up happening is I'll start the BitTorrent download before I go to work, and then leave BT running all day so others can grab it from me.
Sadly, my cable modem's upstream is capped at 30k/s, but that's still not a bad contribution when combined with a few other folks running BitTorrent.
P.S. I *think* it's only 128k up, but I've got no cap.
I realize all this is covered in the link on the first page, but my parents silly isp is filtering it for content for some reason. ph33r bit-torrent corrupting our kids, I guess.
maybe i'll talk to monse..it benefits everyone using, even the CRC'd file on the host.. (monse: if you read.. get in touch with me.. for OTHER reasons too)
-You can upload while you download
-All you gotta do is start the download and it'll upload for you
-<a href='http://ei.kefro.st/projects/btclient/' target='_blank'>Here's</a> another version which I think works better, you can easily change max upload rate and max uploads ( anyone who LOWERS one of these may forever burn in heck )
It also shows you a "share rating" ( though I'm not sure if the original does this )
The share rating is how much you've downloaded versus uploaded
So if everyone waits til this is AT LEAST 1.0, preferably more
We'd all be happy and giggly in no time
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because if there is i maybe able to do it that way, I'll have the file as soon as its available anyways.
PM me if someone knows how to do this, and I'll get some more backing and try to get a word into MonsE-ie-poo
Well you could...
uuh
Upload it there and use it as a plain old mirror ?
hehe
oh yeah if you get the experimental (its stable at the moment tho) client you can cap the upload to whatever you want after you d/l it. but if you wanna leave it on all night ( 56k works for BT and Me) put it to unlim - faster download if you let it upload more
Well you could...
uuh
Upload it there and use it as a plain old mirror ?
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i mentioned that before, but it would be gone in a flash. this way it could stay up probably longer and more people would be able to use it. But i really have no idea how it works. I'll look into it more tomorrow night.
please get us bittorrent.
who knows how to make a tracker, seed a file, all that important stuff?
not strictly true, itll work on some ratio i assume. i ul at 30kbps, dl at 120kbps on bt.
The only flaw i find with this is that it is also possible to download from people who only have a part of the file downloaded, and despite whatever you say, there WILL be at least 250 people out of the 10,000 Plus who play NS that want to host the file.
Bittorrent rocks, it works, and NS2.0 should be Bittorrent.
Besides, what's to stop anyone from taking the file and Bittorrenting it themselves, anyway?
LM