-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2008-05-04 at 22:19 -0500, Rajko M. wrote:
In your last sentence above you hit the nail: the big servers have to be an important part of the torrent swarm. If nobody else is seeding, the download would at least go as fast as the same server serving ftp, and even faster if people downloading it also seeds. But it is very important that at the nucleus are the big servers feeding it to everybody wanting it.
Most broadband connections have speed ratio 4:1 for download vs.upload. Even if torrent users would disconnect right after they receive complete file, 25% more users will be served without any further investment on a server side.
Provided the "server side" gives to torrent the same bandwidth they give for ftp alone. If the "server side" is compossed of small servers, then no wonder that ftp is way faster. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIHuI0tTMYHG2NR9URAlmjAJ4ulC+FHFJb2flBOfxSW87i/r8dTgCglB13 HBR1jmZekgAQIRAOzctGRgw= =r6rR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org