On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 11:03 -0600, Ian Wormsbecker wrote: > Can anyone speculate whether this is a BT protocol problem where it > can't deal with that many peers, or whether it is likely a tracker > problem? I have never heard of anyone using BT on that large of a scale > before (I think the most peers I have ever seen is around 800).
>From my personal experience, BT generally works great with lots of peers. Of course BT is like anything else on the net, and YMMV. It's like when people get a new high speed connection, and then wonder why a download is going slow. They usually blame it on the new line until I tell them about all the factors that can affect a download speed. For example, if the server is running on a P1 over a dial-up connection with a number of users connected to it, I don't care how fast your pipe is, you're going to get slow speeds. I've seen torrents with thousands of peers, generally when a new episode of Enterprise or South Park is released. I have seen some of my best results on these torrents. For example, the other week I was downloading from one of these over popular torrents and received a sustained 575 kb/s d/l rate, with the rate sometimes moving >700 kb/s. BT is also used to distribute patches for Azureus and these are hugely popular when they are first released. I found this method to work very well. While I'm on the subject, I have to say that Azureus is the best BT client I've seen. It now has so many more features than the official client, that it is generally the best way to go on the desktop. Jarrod: get over your Java phobia and download it. It only takes a couple minutes to setup. As for the new distributed feature, this is from the release notes: "1.1 Distributed Database Azureus now has a distributed, decentralised database that can be used to track decentralised torrents. This permits both "trackerless" torrents and the maintenance of swarms where the tracker has become unavailable or where the torrent was removed from the tracker. It uses the UDP protocol, if you have a firewall/router, you will need to open/forward the UDP port in the same way you did with TCP to download data." Jesse _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
