“New releases made by large free software projects usually means that a lot of people want the new release NOW, and the recent Debian and Ubuntu releases are no exceptions. This writeup details how we, Academic Computer Club at Umea University, Sweden, managed to saturate the 2Gbit/s of available internet capacity with a zero-currency budget.”
the fun part is that sunet dont htink 2.5 gbit is enough anymore and are going to upgrade to 40gigabit :O
Good idea! 🙂
sunet was slow when i had 2mbit and now when I have 100mbit they are even slower…
Anyway, my mother works at the economy section of uppsala unviersity, so i guess I have to lay in a good word for them =).
here’s where torrents will be useful, large distribution of big applications