[GRLUG] core 5 iso image?

[john-thomas richards]

On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 02:50:11PM -0400, Tim Schmidt wrote:
> On 4/30/06, john-thomas richards <jtr at jrichards.org> wrote:
> > It is my understanding of bittorrent that it adjusts your download
> > speed relative to your upload speed.  The whole point of bittorrent is
> > *everyone* shares the load so your download speed is relative.  This
> > prevents one from downloading a large file without really contributing
> > bandwidth back to others in the form of sharing the same file (or
> > pieces thereof) with others at a comparable speed.  If (since) your
> > upstream bandwidth (which is really just another way to say someone
> > else's *downstream* bandwidth) is throttled, your downstream is being
> > "throttled," too.
> 
> Actually, according to http://bittorrent.org/protocol.html the
> throttling algorithm used by bittorrent is significantly more complex
> than adjusting download speed according to upload speed (in fact, the
> speed of the down / uploads is only throttled indirectly).  From what
> I gather from that page, in order to get the best bittorrent download
> rate, you only need be uploading a little bit faster than anyone else,
> and hang around for a while.  And even if you're not the faster guy on
> the block, you'll get picked up randomly by uploaders looking for
> better connections.
[snip]

And so my understanding of bittorrent just got a little better.  :-)
-- 
john-thomas
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