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Re: Regional differences in P2P

  • From: Sean Donelan
  • Date: Sun Jul 18 03:13:50 2004

On Sun, 18 Jul 2004, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> Well, if the p2p program gets chunks of data from all sources, anyone with
> a faster uplink will complete faster and thus get more chunks (as the p2p
> program requests new chunks from each peer as the previous one is
> finished), and thus produce more traffic. Not much intelligence, just the
> way they work.

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