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Hurricane Electric Offers Bit Torrent Service

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the send-me-your-biggest-file dept.

heypete writes "Hurricane Electric is now offering BitTorrent tracker/seeder services on behalf of paying customers. One need only upload the file desired to a specified directory by FTP, and their system will automatically generate a torrent file, add it to a tracker for that customer, and act as a "seed" to ensure that the file is available to downloaders. This could prove to be extremely useful for distributors of large files (such as Linux distributions), as bandwidth for the tracker and seeding services does not count against the bandwidth quota for the account."

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  1. Dude! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    "More typically I see what I'm seeing now, trying to download a copy of RedHat Fedora - ... at 28 to 40 kB/ps. Am I suppose to be excited by this?"

    Dude, if you are getting 28 to 40 kilobytes
    per picosecond, you damn well ought to be
    impressed!

    Sheesh, some people are never satisfied.

  2. Re:What should I do? by suwain_2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Porn. Lots and lots of porn.

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