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[SUGGESTION] use torrent for rom-downloading

most of use know how to use torrents, and those who don't can learn in probably 3 minutes from youtube.
most if not all rom devs and maintainers use their own sites or file-sharing sites like rapidshare and megaupload. it would be a lot easier for everyone including the devs to torrent the file.
basically i want to encourage more torrent use. since its even possible within the android os now we have no excuse.

am not sure they allowed torrent here, thx

Mweuch said:
am not sure they allowed torrent here, thx
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Not really. From what I understand, using P2P technology is not itself disallowed, but using it to link to pirated or copyright-infringing materials is.

This comes up quite often... P2P systems exist, but many people can't use them from work, and they aren't always reliable.
Direct http downloads are the best way.

the_scotsman said:
This comes up quite often... P2P systems exist, but many people can't use them from work, and they aren't always reliable.
Direct http downloads are the best way.
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it could work as a complement to direct http download, 2 main advantages, 1 is usually much faster downloads are possible (if seeded fairly), other is that no captchas/countdowns/adverts to sit through. i'd say those alone are good enough reason to encourage use of torrents.
don't have to completely do away with direct downloads, but would be handy as an option for people who can use torrents.
also, how are torrents not reliable? they are more reliable than http downloads, thanks to checksumming! broken downloads are possible on direct download, not on torrent.

wrsg said:
it could work as a complement to direct http download, 2 main advantages, 1 is usually much faster downloads are possible (if seeded fairly), other is that no captchas/countdowns/adverts to sit through. i'd say those alone are good enough reason to encourage use of torrents.
don't have to completely do away with direct downloads, but would be handy as an option for people who can use torrents.
also, how are torrents not reliable? they are more reliable than http downloads, thanks to checksumming! broken downloads are possible on direct download, not on torrent.
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What if no one downloads from the torrent at all because of direct download ?
If there was 1 user who was downloading , the speed would suck bad .
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EmoBoiix3 said:
What if no one downloads from the torrent at all because of direct download ?
If there was 1 user who was downloading , the speed would suck bad .
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duh. use the direct download in that case. this is about giving a choice between torrent and dd, no one is forcing you.

wrsg said:
duh. use the direct download in that case. this is about giving a choice between torrent and dd, no one is forcing you.
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Sorry if I meant any hostility
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EmoBoiix3 said:
Sorry if I meant any hostility
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sorry, no offence meant.

wrsg said:
sorry, no offence meant.
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Nah , no offence taken .
Besides your idea is quite feasible , I will try it when I release my team's AOSP
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#TeamWhiskey Let's get the ball rolling!

http://www.teamwhiskey.com/
Hey guys,
I wanted to ask everyone here for your help to get the ball rolling to get TEAM WHISKEY start developing for our phone. They just need a few more funds to get the phone for them to start cooking something REAL GOOD.
Now, if you had the Vibrant you know exactly who they are and what they can do.
If you don't just go to the Vibrant forum and search BIONIX 1.3.1. Best Vibrant rom made #PERIOD They brought Froyo to the Vibrant way before Tmobile release an update. They turned the Vibrant from a POS to a great phone.
So can they bring ICS to our phone before an update?, MAYBE. They definitely can if all the source is there. (once it's out)
They took a break, but now are making there way back to the scene.
Now this is not exactly a bounty because a donation is not necessarily needed, but would definitely help.
All you have to do is go to there webpage http://www.teamwhiskey.com/ and click on one of their adsense ads and they will get credit for it.
Now if you would like to donate you can register and donate there.
Either way I hope you guys help with at least a click of the mouse.
Believe me when I say that you won't regret it.
I know we already have some great devs here, but these guys are known for changing the game.
Thanks everyone. I am not a member of Team Whiskey, but a great FAN.
PLEASE NO FLAMING
If you don't want to do it, please just move on. Your negativity is not needed. Only positive people that want even more greatness on their phones.
http://www.teamwhiskey.com/

Yes i had the vibrant and it had team whiskey's roms running aside from team edt. They left a big footprint in those forums.
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chib1panda said:
Yes i had the vibrant and it had team whiskey's roms running aside from team edt. They left a big footprint in those forums.
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Indeed, they did!
This phone is a BEAST!

Like EDT, they don't just steal others' work like some other 'devs'....
I'd love to see them come to the SGS2
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asatnik11 said:
Like EDT, they don't just steal others' work like some other 'devs'....
I'd love to see them come to the SGS2
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Nope sure don't. Would be a great addition.
This phone is a BEAST!

Bit short on funds atm (wife just lost her job) but I clicked every damn ad I could find on the every page. I know its like 1c per click but still

kenvan19 said:
Bit short on funds atm (wife just lost her job) but I clicked every damn ad I could find on the every page. I know its like 1c per click but still
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It all adds up at the end and that's all that matters. Thanks.
This phone is a BEAST!

Just a minor reminder TeamWhiskey have left XDA and they do their DEV work in their own forum, so any one posting their work here should be done in General, and not in the DEV section
also XDA rules only allows direct link to the ROM files
and screen shots
changelogs are nice to have, but not necessary if it's outside work
it's a must if it's local in house XDA development

Are they going to support the galaxy nexus when and if it comes to Tmobile? Love their ROMs and were the only ones I placed on my phone I trust them to make any phone zing and rock. Just my 2 cents
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mritek said:
Are they going to support the galaxy nexus when and if it comes to Tmobile? Love their ROMs and were the only ones I placed on my phone I trust them to make any phone zing and rock. Just my 2 cents
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your question is off topic,
this question should be asked in the Galaxy Nexus forum http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1336

AllGamer said:
Just a minor reminder TeamWhiskey have left XDA and they do their DEV work in their own forum, so any one posting their work here should be done in General, and not in the DEV section
also XDA rules only allows direct link to the ROM files
and screen shots
changelogs are nice to have, but not necessary if it's outside work
it's a must if it's local in house XDA development
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Sounds good, thanks.
On a side note ..
I don't blame them, with all the drama that has been going on lately I can tell why.
Some people just don't know how to act and take things personal when it's the internet and XDA is for mostly Development, Customization and 411 of phones. Not personal vendettas and haterism.
Anyways back to the topic....
This phone is a BEAST!

mritek said:
Are they going to support the galaxy nexus when and if it comes to Tmobile? Love their ROMs and were the only ones I placed on my phone I trust them to make any phone zing and rock. Just my 2 cents
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If and when it comes out for T-Mobile they will. They announced it a couple weeks ago.
But this is for our SGS2 not Nexus, at least not yet.
This phone is a BEAST!

Bump
#Havingablast w/ my SGS2

I know y'all wanna see some of this on our phones!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=46DXt8KoT8E

I would love to see these guys here I'm gonna donate now
But I really needed to say
That I would love to see one of these for nick from miui.us as that rom (once it became more stable) was a literal transformation of performance on my vibrant even compared to cm7.
I know that miui is a port based system and we need to wait for our cm7 port first but I'm willing to donate and/or in willing and ready to help with the process.
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Just an update,
Som just picked up the SGS2, so soon we will see some Team Whiskey roms.
Thanks to everyone that donated or went to the website and clicked on the ads.
If you haven't, please at least visit the website and click on the ads so they can get some credit for them. I think Viral still needs his. Either way, can't wait .
Love this phone.

ThC23 said:
Just an update,
Som just picked up the SGS2, so soon we will see some Team Whiskey roms.
Thanks to everyone that donated or went to the website and clicked on the ads.
If you haven't, please at least visit the website and click on the ads so they can get some credit for them. I think Viral still needs his. Either way, can't wait .
Love this phone.
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Awesome! They made some great roms for the vibrant.
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OMG Som is finally active! I've always been a fan of their awesome work.
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[MIRROR] Download all your favorite ROMS/THEMES as torrents

I've noticed a lot of the download sites have been sucking lately, so I thought sharing the ROMS as torrents would be a good way to remedy the situation.
I will start out with a few and hope to build in the coming days. If any of the versions I put up need updating, please point that out as it'll be hard to keep track of myself further down the line. Also, feel free to throw out suggestions of anything you want to see up here.
If you are not familiar with torrents, look here: http://www.utorrent.com/help/guides/beginners-guide
Essentially download utorrent, install it, and open the .torrent file I posted with the utorrent program. It will then download the file directly from me and anyone else who is sharing the file.
Make sure all proper ports are forwarded and that you have DHT and local peer discovery enabled in utorrent.
You may also download directly to your phone using an app such as ttorrent (pro version recommended) for android. Just open the .torrent file using the ttorrent app on your phone.
Oh, and one last thing. SEED SEED SEED!

You better get the dev's permission first or you might inadvertently upset them. I learned this the hard way. Just passing on the advice.

I for one think this is a great idea. just make sure to ask the devs first to make sure noones toes are being stepped on. but great idea man.

oscarthegrouch said:
You better get the dev's permission first or you might inadvertently upset them. I learned this the hard way. Just passing on the advice.
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I hate to be that guy.. but who cares?
That's how the internet works. If someone makes something available for mass consumption, the more mirrors the better. How many legit files/links out there are gone forever thanks to megaupload disappearing?
If you don't want something shared, don't share it in the first place.

patrao_n said:
I for one think this is a great idea. just make sure to ask the devs first to make sure noones toes are being stepped on. but great idea man.
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Thats precisely why I put it here and not in the DEV section. However, you make a good point, and I will be contacting each dev to notify them and will take their work down upon request.

pbassjunk said:
I hate to be that guy.. but who cares?
That's how the internet works. If someone makes something available for mass consumption, the more mirrors the better. How many legit files/links out there are gone forever thanks to megaupload disappearing?
If you don't want something shared, don't share it in the first place.
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I completely agree

Prepare for a flood of md5 checks
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pbassjunk said:
I hate to be that guy.. but who cares?
That's how the internet works. If someone makes something available for mass consumption, the more mirrors the better. How many legit files/links out there are gone forever thanks to megaupload disappearing?
If you don't want something shared, don't share it in the first place.
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Well that may be so, but some things it's better to ask out of respect. Plus, Jerdog (the moderator for this section) said he thought it wouldn't be a problem with xda "staff". He did say that you should get the dev's permission first.
I asked a dev about helping out and never got a reply so I didn't post it.
You can be a **** about it or you could use some etiquette. Wiki's explanation of it is
Rules of etiquette encompass most aspects of social interaction in any society, though the term itself is not commonly used. A rule of etiquette may reflect an underlying ethical code, or it may reflect a person's fashion or status. Rules of etiquette are usually unwritten, but aspects of etiquette have been codified from time to time.
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Sometimes not a single f is given, sometimes some respect is shown.
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locoboi187 said:
Prepare for a flood of md5 checks
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I don't remember seeing md5's for very many roms either.

It goes like this,90 percent of all

lviv73 said:
It goes like this,90 percent of all roms are available at rom sites for direct download-no torrents or sharing sites needed.What you cant download on rom sites is only some chd images for mame roms.
I usualy find any rom on Emuparidise or RomWorld(two best rom sites)And if you cant find them there RomHustler or CoolRom,these two are heavy on advertisements but sometimes have what others dont.For ps3 games got to PS3iso which has almost every psn-ps3 game.I dont own 360 so I cant tell you where to get games for it.
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Not those kinds of roms...

meatwadathf said:
Not those kinds of roms...
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I know lmao,i need to stop smokin,lol.I realised it after I typed the whole response,dint delete it on time.

lviv73 said:
I know lmao,i need to stop smokin,lol.
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lmao hahahhaha priceless

Drunk dialing or stoned typing...

oscarthegrouch said:
Well that may be so, but some things it's better to ask out of respect. Plus, Jerdog (the moderator for this section) said he thought it wouldn't be a problem with xda "staff". He did say that you should get the dev's permission first.
I asked a dev about helping out and never got a reply so I didn't post it.
You can be a **** about it or you could use some etiquette. Wiki's explanation of it is
Sometimes not a single f is given, sometimes some respect is shown.
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I don't remember seeing md5's for very many roms either.
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Really? Putting the definition of etiquette.. I'm sure we all wondered what that big word was..
There are always better ways of doing things, but this should have already happened and the dev's shouldn't mind, other than not doing it themselves.

Added EpIc+VeNuM+Rom+EL29

*cough* Miui *cough*
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T.C.P said:
*cough* Miui *cough*
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Tried, but the download is down. I have to have the rom to create a torrent.
EDIT: nevermind. MIUI coming soon.
EDIT: done and done...

T.C.P said:
*cough* Miui *cough*
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Hey, you know what would be a great idea? If you linked this thread in your OP.

A torrent category for our wiki downloads would be great
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barnacles10 said:
A torrent category for our wiki downloads would be great
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You mean for the different modems and stock roms? I just tried but I can't get any of those. Seems like multiupload is totally down. If you have all those files somewhere you can easily create torrents yourself. Its just a matter of having that spare bandwidth to front the first couple peers.

File hosts - Why not torrents?

As a new user I just have to ask; why is the use of file hosts so common for things like RUUs?
It seems that in a community as large as this there would be plenty of people willing to seed torrents and it would make for far quicker downloads.
Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems like torrents are perfectly suited to the task.

All I know is that torrents are riddled with viruses. That's why I'll never use a torrent these days.
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What makes you think that your downloads aren't also riddled with viruses? If it comes from a XDA recognized user, a torrent is just as safe.
If you're talking about a file that you get off of a random search engine, then I agree with you!
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Anyone can set up an torrent and mark it under a recognized user.
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bitpushr said:
What makes you think that your downloads aren't also riddled with viruses? If it comes from a XDA recognized user, a torrent is just as safe.
If you're talking about a file that you get off of a random search engine, then I agree with you!
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I know that downloads I do can indeed be riddled with them aswell, but in my experience, I've found that torrents have had more viruses and more damaging viruses detected, at that.
I'm not saying they're all the same though.
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I know that downloads I do can indeed be riddled with them aswell, but in my experience, I've found that torrents have had more viruses and more damaging viruses detected, at that.
I'm not saying they're all the same though.
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Maybe you should stop downloading dodgy torrents?
I have in the past maintained torrent threads for downloads and people love them. The threads are now being mangered by other users and many people still use them.
Torrents are a very good option and i think more people should embrace them.
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I think they should move to torrents more too. Faster downloads and no waiting for a hosting site. Torrents have been improperly labeled as a surefire way to get infected when the exact opposite is true. You can see what files are included in the torrent you are downloading before you start. Torrents were also originally made to distribute Linux distros faster and without the hosting. Torrents are amazing and should be utilized more often.
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Anyone can set up an torrent and mark it under a recognized user.
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But people will only download a torrent if it is featured in the OP. Nobody is dumb enough to download something that has the power to make their phone unusable without doing some research.
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I'm totally here for this, and I have an idea to make it effective: or a developper should first upload to a host, then build a userbase to download the updates via torrent. Since any new rom won't get immediate user support, the updates should get people going seeding since a more stable release equals more users (thus more seeds).

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I know that downloads I do can indeed be riddled with them aswell, but in my experience, I've found that torrents have had more viruses and more damaging viruses detected, at that.
I'm not saying they're all the same though.
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I have never gotten a virus from a download or torrent or even downloaded one. The best defense is to only download something you are sure is from a reputable source which would be the case if most developers posted a torrent link in their OP. I don't think there is any increased danger between using a torrent over a file sharing site in fact it could even be much safer.

Torrents FTW!
I've come across a few who provide torrent downloads, guess it's a personal choice.

Quite frankly I agree. A lot of so called file hosts I have seen being used (like when I downloaded a Jellybean ROM for my Samsung Infuse) have been either painfully slow (one host was so slow it was measured in BYTES per second!), or the download limits of the host were insane. If torrents were used, it would make downloading so much easier.

Don't forget that some people are on networks that disallow use of ANY "file sharing" networks. I got kicked off my college network for a few days and had to promise never to use bittorrent again after i connected to the campus network with my laptop downloading a Linux distro in the background.
Torrents are great, but if you want to get useful, meaningful feedback on your work, you need to get it to the widest audience.
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Duckman5 said:
Don't forget that some people are on networks that disallow use of ANY "file sharing" networks. I got kicked off my college network for a few days and had to promise never to use bittorrent again after i connected to the campus network with my laptop downloading a Linux distro in the background.
Torrents are great, but if you want to get useful, meaningful feedback on your work, you need to get it to the widest audience.
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Your point is definitely a valid one. I am in college myself, which has such policies. Torrents could be used alongside HTTP-based downloads to cover that issue. This is what many Linux distributions do.

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Your point is definitely a valid one. I am in college myself, which has such policies. Torrents could be used alongside HTTP-based downloads to cover that issue. This is what many Linux distributions do.
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And there are services that let you download a torrent to there server and then download it normally from there.
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Download links supplied here on Xda?

Ok so each time I'm searching for anything on xda the links provided always go to some download service. Why is this? Why can't I just download the zip or roms that I want directly instead of having good to download some other service? Aren't most of those services spyware/malware?
Explanation please.
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From my knowledge none of these have any malware, or so years and I think only Dropbox links work directly
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Ok good to know, it's too bad not everyone uses Dropbox.
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People here commonly use a bunch of sites like mediafire, goo.im, dev host; which are usually reliable...
Dropbox provides limited bandwidth for free, and these are no good if you get 200 downloads a week...
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Escofosho said:
Ok good to know, it's too bad not everyone uses Dropbox.
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Dropbox is the best. Makes me wonder how we did anything on the internet a few years ago.

smartphonesanonymous said:
Dropbox is the best. Makes me wonder how we did anything on the internet a few years ago.
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well, try hosting a rom file in your account.. and if it gets good traffic then your account will be disabled by dropbox.. its not the best.. but its good choice if you have some thing to share with few people..

nitubhaskar said:
well, try hosting a rom file in your account.. and if it gets good traffic then your account will be disabled by dropbox.. its not the best.. but its good choice if you have some thing to share with few people..
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Indeed its hardly practical.
If its a open source ROM I think source forge is always good. Or (and more devs needs to do this) use good old torrents!
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zacthespack said:
Indeed its hardly practical.
If its a open source ROM I think source forge is always good. Or (and more devs needs to do this) use good old torrents!
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aah.. torrents.. but that would take up our bandwidth.. if you are living in a country like mine (india).. we dont have luxury of very good speeds affordable for common people.. so, file sharing sites are best according to my experience.. host it once and be done with it..
source forge is good.. but as you said if its OS... well , github serves this purpose too.. i prefer dev-host , mediafire.. they are currently more reliable for fast downloads and traffic doesnt matter AFAIK..

nitubhaskar said:
aah.. torrents.. but that would take up our bandwidth.. if you are living in a country like mine (india).. we dont have luxury of very good speeds affordable for common people.. so, file sharing sites are best according to my experience.. host it once and be done with it..
source forge is good.. but as you said if its OS... well , github serves this purpose too.. i prefer dev-host , mediafire.. they are currently more reliable for fast downloads and traffic doesnt matter AFAIK..
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Well you could use a seedbox to share it from. I have three myself (my upload speed sucks) all 1GB lines makes sharing files much much easier to the masses
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