** Tony Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-09-06 08:33]: > On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 23:49 +0100, Paul Tansom wrote: > > > Ignoring the fact that I have to open up a port on a desktop machine to > > the internet (which I'm not that keen on, even on Linux), I really can't > > leave myself open to the lack of control of my data transfer usage that > > bittorrent forces you into - not that in principle I object, just the > > practice. > > What do you mean by 'lack of control'? Just curious. ** end quote [Tony Arnold]
When I first looked into Bittorrent you could limit the amount of bandwidth it used, but not the amount of data transferred. I guess by limiting one you do have some element of control over the other, but not a lot. Also, from my first experiments, until you've shared a decent amount of files you don't get anywhere near the speed of download that you get with a straight download of a half decent server. I think my first attempt was with Debian, although I could be wrong. I set things up to download an ISO of around the 600M ish mark and left it over night. The initial speed estimated a download time of around 4 days, but I assumed that this would improve as things progressed and I was sharing out also. When I returned to it some 12 hours later it had downloaded around 25M and had improved the estimate to about a day and a half. That seemed to imply that you only managed to get a good download speed if you left your connection open 24/7 for others to use, and after a few days or weeks you would start to be seen as a good seed and hence get improved download speeds. I've just found that Opera seems to have a bittorrent client built in, so I'm going to experiment by opening up the required port, although it'll take a bit of configuration on my routers and firewalls to get it through to me now - not such a simple network setup as I used to have. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 ====================================================================== Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, Hants, PO7 6NU -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
