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Originally Posted by davedickson View Post
Well thats what I was thinking, maybe worth doing this now and get it working well before the repos are shut down (if they ever do get shut down).

Does anyone know what sort of bandwidth is needed for a decent mirror?

I have the spare hardware + time, but will need a hand setting it up.
you probably want to have a top speed home connection with as many Mbps upload speed as possible.
considering that most Maemo packages are reasonably small (the former Firefox the largest one i came across so far is about 15MBs, but you obviously don't have to mirror it) you probably may want to throttle individual bandwidth to such a level that the average package download (when that bandwidth is available) doesn't exceed a few seconds.

also worth checking is your provider's "fair use policy" which may include monthly (or daily) caps. considering that a lot of consumers are using torrents, the number of connections may (or may not) be okay.

EDIT: the home connection may still be a problem if your IP address changes.
this usually doesn't happen if your server remains on-line and reboots quickly (before the IP address is allocated to another user) but ISP terms & conditions usually stipulate that the IP address is not guaranteed.
you may also want to spent some time configuring a firewall.

EDIT2: Pali, i hope you don't mind me mentioning this here, but...
that is one of the problems that was at least alluded to on the council thread; i.e. organizing & financing hosting. home hosting is a possibility, but it obviously comes with the cost of having to manage the server; like: RAID or @ least good backup & ready to replace a HD on a moments notice, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera...

Last edited by misterc; 2011-07-24 at 06:11.