On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 14:43 -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > Seems like this could be avoided if the existing repos simply seeded > every file that they host. Then you could always get the files via > BitTorrent even if no other regular users were seeding. Unless I'm > missing something, torrent download speed could not be any slower than > direct download speed, with the exception of the extra time it takes > to contact the tracker and locate peers.
You can't compare 20 users downloading from ftp, http/s with 20 users seeding and leeching a torrent at the same time. Theoretically the torrent should be faster, but in practise this seldom or never happens. I suspect that the handling of seeders, leechers and trackers, IOW the sync, will slow it down. I might be mistaken. However, imagine you should leech a part of the download from some people seeding, with a terrible low bandwidth. Some seeders could get on and off line and this must be handled too etc. pp.. Perhaps somebody with knowledge could explain why I and at least another one from this list experienced torrents as slower than a direct download. For sure it's less important for those who download with a low bandwidth, but many of us for sure have very fast DSL connections, even if those connections might not be as fast as the ISP does claim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1371756505.644.72.camel@archlinux
