pedro.. you're correct! i forgot to mention that aspect.. it was late when i was writing!! my bad!! ftp servers.. or distributed file sharing.. hmmm.. i can picture a backbone of ~1000 servers.. where you as a user either get the files from the backbone, or from any of the users who are tied to the system.. who have the file on their server (the bittorrent approach).. wrap this puppy up with the right algorithms.. put together the right web application around it, and compete against akamai!!! -bruce -----Original Message----- From: Pedro Fernandes Macedo [mailto:webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 7:56 AM To: bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: RE: BitTorrent issues with FC4 isos On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 07:33:19 -0700, "bruce" <bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu: > after looking at 'getright', i'm suspicious as to how it can wor with any > given 'file' of any large size.. if as you say, it splits the file up, and > gets the chunks from different sources.. that's essentially what bittorent > does.. i'm dubious that this app has the number of users as bittorrent, and > i'd expect over all, that for large/more popular files, it wouldn't be as > useful... getright (and flashget and Downloader For X) use the resume features of web/ftp servers. They make several requests for diferent ranges inside the file and downloads them in parallel. Then the data is combined back in disk into a single file. The overall speed depends on the mirrors it uses. It's almost the same idea of BT , except that the "mirrors" here are other people downloading the files.. -- Pedro Macedo
