[arch-general] What happened to Powerpill?

[Jelle van der Waa]

On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 20:16 +0530, Madhurya Kakati wrote: 
> 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
> >
> 

The powerpill source is probably still available, so start hacking ;)

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Jelle van der Waa