On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Michael B. Smith <mich...@theessentialexchange.com> wrote: > MSFT has its own technology for this "Background Intelligent Transfer > Service" - BITS.
Oh! I forgot about BITS. And doesn't BITS in Vista SP1 have the capability of doing peer-to-peer file sharing, just like BitTorrent does? Microsoft could release a stand-alone BITS client to let people without Vista download big things like this Win 7 Beta. They could even offer a stand-alone BITS *server* for other companies to use. That would be downright useful. (Just to tie in to a previous topic in this thread: But instead of that, Vista gives us transparent window trim.) > More than likely, the assumption is that most folks are not going > to want to wait for a couple of days while BITS transfers huge > files in the background. BitTorrent can generally deliver a 650 MB CD image in around ten minutes on my nuttin' special cable Internet feed. And unlike conventional file transfer methods, the more people downloading a torrent at once, the *faster* it goes. I dunno if BITS was intended for that kind of massive share swarm, high-speed transfer though. BitTorrent has caused a lot of cheap routers and network drivers to fail under the load it can generate. Trying to use BITS that way might violate the design assumption. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
