James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
What is really going on there? How is torrent involved? I see some
upload traffic when I am downloading, but it doesn't seem enough for
peering (is that the term?). Never more than ~ 20 KB/s up and mostly
much less, maybe 5KB/s.
That's fairly typical. Bittorrent trades off aggregation and time for
raw download speed. If you download at 100KB/sec and upload at
20KB/sec, then the system makes it back from you if you stay on 5 times
as long.
There doesn't seem to be much in the way of
either status feedback (about networking) or configuration.
That's probably intentional. Anyone who really knows about BitTorrent
probably has their own favorite client.
It seems to have 160 python modules that build upon mozilla xulrunner
(if I've said that right -- I'm ignorant about that xul-stuff).
No idea about that.
I do have to say it gives no hint of any codec problems, and has a nice
full-screen option. And there are some neat categories. Science and
education, of course, but languages might be fun to try. Brad - you
still want to brush up on your German?.
What codecs does it seem to be using?
I also looked at BitTorrent on Amazon. It turns out that Amazon has
that directly from S3. It simply charges for traffic.
Personally, I think I would want a torrent instance inside an EC3 so
that I could control the settings rather than relying on Amazon.
If they ever screw up the settings, I could accrue a lot of bandwidth
charge really fast with no one to appeal it to.
-a
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