Friday, April 15, 2005 1:55 PM szurgot

Ok, VS.NET 2005 Beta 2 is done, now where's the sanctioned torrent?

Ok, so VS.NET 2005 Beta 2 is done. And it'll be released next week. (Why not now so we can use all that bandwidth to download over the weekend. <grin>)

But the real question is where is the more efficient downloading scheme for MSDN? This thing will be 3+ GBs, and if it's anything like last time, everybody and his brother will be hitting the MSDN site, so it'll take 3 or 4 days to get it all. Wouldn't it be nice if they used BitTorrent, much like RedHat does with Fedora (http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/) Add security to the whole thing so no unlicensed user can get it, and let it a good proven method for downloading large files go to work.

That said, I still can't wait to get in the MSDN queue, even if I do have to fuss with it. <grin>

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# re: Ok, VS.NET 2005 Beta 2 is done, now where's the sanctioned torrent?

Friday, April 15, 2005 2:04 PM by Guest

Seems like the servers are heating up now. Mine is going at 5.2 kbs

# re: Ok, VS.NET 2005 Beta 2 is done, now where's the sanctioned torrent?

Friday, April 15, 2005 3:22 PM by Tiernan OToole

the main reason bit torrent wont be used, other then secruity, is firewalls. the MSDN downloader uses just standard HTTP from what i can gather (or https). no matter where you are, you should just be able to download. with bit torrent you have problems with firewalls and the like. it would be nice mind you, but i dont think just yet...

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