On Wed, 2006-22-03 at 10:59 -0600, Robert Nichols wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 22 March 2006 03:59, Mike McCarty wrote: > > > >>Florin Andrei wrote: > >> > >>[snip] > >> > >> > >>>2. Some ISPs, especially in the US, _do_ restrict BitTorrent > >>>In some cases, it's a layer 3 limiter which can be evaded by > >>>shifting ports. In other cases it's a layer 4 limiter which usually > >>>cannot be evaded by shifting ports, and may or may not be evaded by > >>>encrypted clients. > >>>If that's the case, take your business elsewhere and make sure to > >>>let the former ISP know why you're leaving them. > >> > >>If I were your ISP, I'd be glad to see your backside. > >> > >>This attitude is part of why I said I'm philosophicaly opposed to > >>BitTorrent. > >> > > > > Why? Properly done, it doesn't make their data traffic any worse, in > > fact less "peaky". I'm seeding both the cd's and the dvd of FC5 right > > now, with my upload rate set to around 60% of my up pipes width, and > > all other services are functioning normally. Because torrent gets its > > data from closer peers rather than farther if it can determine that > > correctly, the worldwide amount of traffic should actually go down. By > > quite measurable amounts. This is offset to a large degree by the fact > > that more folks will make use of it when it works, as opposed to going > > after a 700 meg download from halfway around the planet because thats > > the only server for that file. > > In most cable HSI systems, the number of available upload channels > is only a small fraction of the number of available download > channels. The systems were engineered for an environment where > users mostly download, and only occasionally upload. With > BitTorrent, the total upload volume is equal to the download > volume (if you are ultimately giving back less than you receive, > then someone else is uploading more than they received), and the > cable system is not designed to support that. I understand that > one of the features of DOCSIS 2.0 is an increase in the available > upload bandwidth, but I don't know of any cable HSI providers who > have yet done the major upgrade of their systems needed to support > that. > > As for downloading from halfway around the world, your local ISP > couldn't care less how far data might have travelled to reach their > gateway routers. Your right. But the poor sucker hosting the FTP server is getting beaten senseless. :^( -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
