[arch-general] What happened to Powerpill?

[Madhurya Kakati]

Please, someone restart powerpill development. It was awesome. I had
to remove it in order to upgrade to pacman 3.5 but now I can't find it
anywhere.

On 3/28/11, Corrado Primier <ilbardo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2011/3/28 Nicolas Bigaouette <nbigaouette at gmail.com>:
>> I guess it would make sense if your own bandwidth is bigger then the
>> mirror's...
>
> It happens with my ISP that the single connection bandwidth looks to
> be capped. I have 8Mbit but a single transfer rarely exceeds 2Mbit,
> unless it is very late night or Sunday morning :) Powerpill allowed me
> to fully use my bandwidth. I recognize it's a bad traffic shaping
> problem (and powerpill had its shortcomings too), but it solved it for
> me.
>
> Corrado
>

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