On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 07:28:09PM +0200, Vahis wrote:
The problem here is the ISP. They all give you easily and quite cheap downstream speed.
I have 24 Mbs down.
But upstream is a bitch. I have 1 lousy meg upsteam. That's all they give you.
This is one of the issues of Bittorrent downloads - there are quite some ISPs blocking P2P traffic. As a study recently revealed, P2P blocking is much more prevalent than most of us would have thought. Especially in the US (50% of ISPs!) and in Singapore. It nearly only affects uploads. Contrary to what ISPs typically claim, it happens at all hours of the day, not only during congestion times. Reference: Detecting BitTorrent Blocking, Marcel Dischinger at al., Internet Measurement Conference 2008 This has raised an intensive debate about network neutrality and ISP traffic management practices. The good news is that P2P blocking is decreasing since the results of the study were published. This is one of the reasons why it makes sense to combine P2P download with HTTP/FTP mirror downloads, which is exactly what aria2c is doing, in conjunction with MirrorBrain, our redirector and metalink generator. Peter -- Contact: admin@opensuse.org (a.k.a. ftpadmin@suse.com) #opensuse-mirrors on freenode.net Info: http://en.opensuse.org/Mirror_Infrastructure SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Research & Development