Paul, On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 10:38 +0100, Paul Tansom wrote:
> > 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. My experience has been better than that. Certainly at work, I've got very good download speeds, but at home it has been pathetic. I discovered my ISP (Pipex) throttles BitTorrent to about 20KB/s whereas a full HTTP download will go at full speed. I think there may be more to it than just whether you are a good seed or not! > 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. Azureus is regarded as the dogs wotsits of BitTorrent clients. I use the Gnome BitTornado, but my requirements are fairly simple (i.e., downloading an ISO images of Ubuntu!) Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold, IT Security Coordinator, University of Manchester, IT Services Division, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED], H: http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
