On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 01:17:42AM +0100, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
The center idea of the p2p protocols is to make the "upload" bandwith of the many many users the "download" bandwidth for the others. A great idea, but it is a design flaw to neglect the existing dedicated servers.
Indeed a great idea when you look at it from the point of a users point of view. Or somebody with limited bandwith. Once you have many mirrors with large bandwith, the bit of added extra from users is nice, but practically useless. As I see now there are 12 people seeding the delta-iso. I am sure that 12 people is a laughable number for the FTP sites. I have no idea how to calculate how large the total upload speed is, but mine is 27K, wich is even more laughable compared to the large mirror sites.
So we need a new p2p protocol - intelligent enough to use the traditional download ressources too. Neglecting the presence is a bad start into future.
Unfortunatly that might not be a discussion for openSUSE. I feel having torrents is, at this moment, more a political statement then a technical one. houghi -- Nutze die Zeit. Sie ist das Kostbarste, was wir haben, denn es ist unwiederbringliche Lebenszeit. Leben ist aber mehr als Werk und Arbeit, und das Sein wichtiger als das Tun - Johannes Müller-Elmau