<opinion>P2P excels when there's a lot of consumers, and you start with
one server. If, however, each subscribers becomes a server (publisher)
upon receipt, per-server bandwidth limitations, and system load, are
mitigated.
For some small value of convenience, too, a user can start a Torrent
stream and come back to a whole file. When you're talking movies or
songs... or TIGER datasets, this can be useful.
We have some folks who don't have a lot of bandwidth, so a Torrent might
be useful to them to retrieve stuff, but that's speculation. Overall,
repositories in the conventional sense might be better/easier to maintain.
</opinion>
Jason KG4WSV wrote:
I'm not terribly familiar with bit torrent, so forgive me if these are
novice questions, but I'm trying to understand if and how we (xastir
and APRS users) can benefit from the distribution system in the
sharing of our sometimes large chunks of data, like maps and VM
images.
The basic premise/assumption is that many people will want to download
and many of those will make the data once they have downloaded, right?
If no one peering, there is nothing to download? I guess it degrades
to a traditional master-client download if there's only 1 "peer".
I'm trying to figure out if it's worth the effort, given our
relatively small numbers, to make things like VM images, TIGER
shapefiles, DRGs, DOQQs, etc available via bit torrent.
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