On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 03:52:57PM +0000, Peter Corlett wrote:
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 08:27:04AM -0700, Roland Dobbins wrote:
On Mar 13, 2007, at 8:17 AM, Chris L. Morrow wrote: [...]
what business drivers are there to put more bits on the wire to the end user? BitTorrent.
The download speed is however limited by the upload speed of the peers, which acts as its own rate-limit given that the bandwidth on broadband connections is somewhat asymmetric.
"Ideally" that's how it's supposed to work, but isn't how it works as of present-day. Speaking solely about the BitTorrent protocol, upstream does not affect downstream speed. In fact, there's a BitTorrent client out there which specifically *does not* share any of the data being downloaded (thus acting as a pure leeching client): http://dcg.ethz.ch/projects/bitthief/ -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |