Several companies are now using torrents to distribute stuff. World Of
Warcraft is one. Gets kind of touchy when you have customers paying for a
service, such as WOW, and are unable to get updates to play. Everything I
ever do I give torrent traffic a lower priority and it¹s own global que.
The download is what they really need, so the upload gets throttled pretty
heavily. This fits in well with the ³no server² rule on most networks
because the customer really is not running a server. They are connecting to
Bit Torrent to download. Granted, most torrent clients are setup to share
what has been downloaded, but if the upload is throttled or the customer is
told not to share then it just becomes FTP with a bunch of connections. The
connections can be limited as well.
The last patch I downloaded for an online game was 145 megs. I was able
to get much better speed using a torrent than I would have if I would have
used FTP or HTTP.
Justin
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Justin Wilson <[email protected]>
CCNA CCNT Mikrotik Advanced
http://j2sw.mtin.net/blog
From: RickG <[email protected]>
Reply-To: WISPA General List <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:54:45 -0500
To: WISPA General List <[email protected]>
Subject: [WISPA] bit torrents
Even though our AUP & TOS does not allow it, I have a customer
demanding to run bit torrents. I want to be fair in all matters. Am I
being over
zealous on not allowing torrents? Who here allows or disallows them?
-RickG
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