2009/4/17 Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com:
Torrent isn't a very good transfer method for things which are not fairly popular as it has a fair amount of overhead. The wikimedia download site should be able to saturate your internet connection in any case…
Indeed :-) The problem with the dumps as I understand it is not serving them - if that was a problem, you can be sure the Internet Archive would be happy to store Wikimedia dumps forever - but generating them in the first place.
- d.