On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 09:07:15PM +0200, Troed S?ngberg wrote: > On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 11:41:56 -0700, Galen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I was thinking of P2P file transfer protocols. Bittorrent, gnutella, > >fasttrack, etc. Uploading doesn't always work really great, but > >downloading is quite decent. Bittorrent seems to have zero problems > >saturating upstream bandwidth on many torrents that are 100% behind NAT. > >I classified (mentally) freenet as a P2P, but it's more like a > >server-to-server for best performance. > > Bittorrent works _really_ lousy for downloading if you don't open up a > bunch of ports in the firewall/NAT.
Yup, Blizzard had major problems with this when they started offering vids only via torrent to save bandwidth... it didn't help that they didn't provide a bandwidth slider in their custom clients (and didn't provide a link to the .torrent files directly either). -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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