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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 03:52:57PM +0000, Peter Corlett wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 08:27:04AM -0700, Roland Dobbins wrote: > > On Mar 13, 2007, at 8:17 AM, Chris L. Morrow wrote: > [...] > >> what business drivers are there to put more bits on the wire to the end > >> user? > > BitTorrent. > > The download speed is however limited by the upload speed of the peers, > which acts as its own rate-limit given that the bandwidth on broadband > connections is somewhat asymmetric. "Ideally" that's how it's supposed to work, but isn't how it works as of present-day. Speaking solely about the BitTorrent protocol, upstream does not affect downstream speed. In fact, there's a BitTorrent client out there which specifically *does not* share any of the data being downloaded (thus acting as a pure leeching client): http://dcg.ethz.ch/projects/bitthief/ -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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