I agree a well-seeded torrent can be pretty quick. But the protocol/clients/users only seed for a very limited time, or not at all. The result is most torrents are poorly seeded, and thus slower than downloading from a well-provisioned webserver. Said another way, Bittorrent generally sacrifices speed in order to protect pirates.
That said, S3 has the potential to have very powerful, fast seeds, and to make the torrent always download fast. What I'm curious is if they actually do. Or if they use exploit the reduced speed expectations of torrent users and instead seed the file slower than had the user just downloaded it right from the webserver. -david Bill Mccormick wrote: > Hmmm, I was unable to get the new iphone SDK from Apple's servers on > the weekend, but it was running very quickly on BitTorrent. > > Does anyone know if Apple is seeding BitTorrent for the iphone SDK? > > WoW also uses a BitTorrent derivative for distributing software > patches etc. It seems to be very fast if there are a few high speed > seeders. > > Billl > > On 3/11/08, Victor Grishchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Yes, P2P as a content distribution method is known to be orders of >> magnitude cheaper than any "classic" solution. >> See the paper "Video Internet: The Next Wave of Massive Disruption to the >> U.S. Peering Ecosystem" by P.B. Norton of Equinix >> http://www.blogg.ch/uploads/Internet-Video-Next-Wave-of-Disruption-v1.2.pdf >> >> Still, it is an open question whether costs are actually saved or just >> shifted to ISPs :) >> I think, P2P traffic localization techniques may actually save costs, on >> obvious reasons. >> >>> Saw this on /. a couple days back and noticed that the peer efficiency >>> being reported by Bittorrent in this study is upwards of 96%. Not bad! >>> Does anyone read Norwegian, and can they determine what the (harmonic) >>> average download speed was for S3 versus Bittorrent? >>>> "An experiment was conducted recently by Norwegian broadcasting >>>> company ... 41,000 NOK ... 1,700 NOK. >> -- >> >> Victor >> >> _______________________________________________ >> p2p-hackers mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers >> > > _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
