Andrew Farris wrote:
Correct, cable is a shared medium that is not even close to symmetric
(due to the technology design as content delivery originally rather than
bidirectional), and additionally is oversold absurdly by the cable
networks in many areas. Its not an insurmountable problem, its a problem
the networks are trying to postpone a solution for while attempting to
maximize short term profit. To top it off they are increasingly pushing
more digital content and hd content which further stresses the problem;
which is again because of a content delivery design paradigm which is
*probably a bad idea* but still the current focus of future cable networks.
Even so, torrents are still effective for users on those networks when
they are throttled to a low, but constant, and reasonable bandwidth.
Those bits moving do help the overall torrent network health and help
deliver content to others... people just need to keep them moving
slowly! My desktop system, on a fairly badly clogged up cable network,
has seeded over 6 Gb of the F9 Preview Live disks already... at no more
than 20kbps at night and limited to 10kbps during the day. When people
download in bursts and upload in slow and consistent rates the whole
situation is much easier handled by the networks.. and ultimately the
people downloading still get high bandwidth from the torrent.
Its sad that over 3000 downloads of the i686 Preview Live disk have
occurred through the fedora torrent but only 78 seeds are still active.
If even another 200 users were letting their systems seed at 1kbps it
would be so beneficial to everyone.
My IAP would prefer its ADSL2+ users pull it at 1.5 Mbytes/sec and
better off its sponsored mirror. Can the torrent beat that?
It's common here for IAPs to have a local (maybe shared) mirror of
popular stuff. Mine offers Fedora, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, opensuse,
some BSDs. And gentoo. It might not be an official mirror, so it's worth
checking with your IAP.
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John
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