Re: Comments on the fastestmirror plugin

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On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 07:48 -0800, Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 6:21 AM, Fred Williams <dukederf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The main downside I see to it is that those users on an ISP which throttles
> > BitTorrent will suffer, and have to go back to standard downloads, but if
> > both are provided, then no issue.
> 
> I have found that some corporate firewalls block BitTorrent, no doubt
> to keep wayward employees from downloading w4r3z, but they also have
> the effect of preventing right-thinking employees from downloading
> Open Source installation ISOs.
> 
> So if Fedora does provide BitTorrent RPM downloads, it would still
> need to offer HTTP as well.

No doubt, but I think the BT option could be worth exploring.

poc

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