Phil Schaffner wrote:
On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 16:02 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
It can give better effective bandwidth for you on the download by getting data from a number of peers rather than from a single server with limited IO capacity and bandwidth. It is also good form to
leave
your client open after the download finishes to "give back" to the community by sharing your bandwidth.
Umm, lessee if I understand correctly. (The figures below are the actual rates wget obtained for me when I downloaded the FC4 CD ISOs.)
Seems it would depend on the number of peers operating, their aggregate BW vs that available from a single dedicated server, your ISP's limitations, the particular routing you are getting, load on the server, .......
The operative word is "can" - YMMV.
Phil
As I said, my ADSL modem reports downstream connectivity at 894 Kbps or so. That corresponds to 110 KBps or so. I'm actually getting 60-70 KBps download rate. That's pretty much saturation, I think. I don't see how using more than one source would increase the download rate, when my modem is already just about saturated.
You didn't actually address whether my understanding be correct.
Mike