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Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?

  • From: Joe Abley
  • Date: Sun Jan 21 15:52:00 2007



On 21-Jan-2007, at 14:07, Stephen Sprunk wrote:

Every torrent indexing site I'm aware of has RSS feeds for newly- added torrents, categorized many different ways. Any ISP that wanted to set up such a service could do so _today_ with _existing_ tools. All that's missing is the budget and a go-ahead from the lawyers.

Yes, I know.


If anybody has tried this, I'd be interested to hear whether on- net clients actually take advantage of the local monster seed, or whether they persist in pulling data from elsewhere.

[...] Do I have hard data? No. [...]

So, has anybody actually tried this?


Speculating about how clients might behave is easy, but real experience is more interesting.


Joe