On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 03:41 -0500, grarpamp wrote: > > Nonetheless, there are other reasons why one should not use bittorrent > > over tor, not the least of which is that it is a bandwidth hog. > > Why do we keep saying don't use it? That's almost an invitation > to break the rules. Look at the lists of services out there. Bandwidth > usage is always going up. > > So why not instead say, sure, use Tor for whatever you want PROVIDED > you also help maintain equilibrium by donating some resources. Which > in the case of Tor would be at least six times your own bandwidth use. > > A steep price for sure. But an accurate minumum to maintain state. > > What parts of Tor aren't able to scale to more users?
It's my understanding that BitTorrent is less of a bandwidth hog as it is a connections/circuits hog. These are expensive to create and you can't balance your BitTorrenting by hosting a high-bandwidth node because to have 0 net effect on the network, you'd have to host a circuit's worth of nodes for every circuit you're using for BitTorrent connections. Am I wrong, Tor Old Ones?
