On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 01:17:42AM +0100, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
> The center idea of the p2p protocols is to make the "upload" bandwith of
> the many many users the "download" bandwidth for the others.
> A great idea, but it is a design flaw to neglect the existing dedicated
> servers.
Indeed a great idea when you look at it from the point of a users point of
view. Or somebody with limited bandwith. Once you have many mirrors with
large bandwith, the bit of added extra from users is nice, but practically
useless.
As I see now there are 12 people seeding the delta-iso. I am sure that 12
people is a laughable number for the FTP sites. I have no idea how to
calculate how large the total upload speed is, but mine is 27K, wich is
even more laughable compared to the large mirror sites.
> So we need a new p2p protocol - intelligent enough to use the traditional
> download ressources too. Neglecting the presence is a bad start into
> future.
Unfortunatly that might not be a discussion for openSUSE. I feel having
torrents is, at this moment, more a political statement then a technical
one.
houghi
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