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[Andrew Farris]

John Summerfield wrote:
> Andrew Farris wrote:
>>
> 
>> Correct, cable is a shared medium that is not even close to symmetric 
>> (due to the technology design as content delivery originally rather 
>> than bidirectional),  and additionally is oversold absurdly by the 
>> cable networks in many areas. Its not an insurmountable problem, its a 
>> problem the networks are trying to postpone a solution for while 
>> attempting to maximize short term profit.  To top it off they are 
>> increasingly pushing more digital content and hd content which further 
>> stresses the problem; which is again because of a content delivery 
>> design paradigm which is *probably a bad idea* but still the current 
>> focus of future cable networks.
>>
>> Even so, torrents are still effective for users on those networks when 
>> they are throttled to a low, but constant, and reasonable bandwidth.  
>> Those bits moving do help the overall torrent network health and help 
>> deliver content to others... people just need to keep them moving 
>> slowly!  My desktop system, on a fairly badly clogged up cable 
>> network, has seeded over 6 Gb of the F9 Preview Live disks already... 
>> at no more than 20kbps at night and limited to 10kbps during the day.  
>> When people download in bursts and upload in slow and consistent rates 
>> the whole situation is much easier handled by the networks.. and 
>> ultimately the people downloading still get high bandwidth from the 
>> torrent.
>>
>> Its sad that over 3000 downloads of the i686 Preview Live disk have 
>> occurred through the fedora torrent but only 78 seeds are still 
>> active.  If even another 200 users were letting their systems seed at 
>> 1kbps it would be so beneficial to everyone.
> 
> My IAP would prefer its ADSL2+ users pull it at 1.5 Mbytes/sec and 
> better off its sponsored mirror. Can the torrent beat that?
> 
> It's common here for IAPs to have a local (maybe shared) mirror of 
> popular stuff. Mine offers Fedora, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, opensuse, 
> some BSDs. And gentoo. It might not be an official mirror, so it's worth 
> checking with your IAP.

Actually, I pulled the images from a mirror and started the seeds with the data 
already.  But yes thats something for people to be aware of.

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Andrew Farris <lordmorgul at gmail.com> www.lordmorgul.net
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