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[John Summerfield]

Andrew Farris wrote:
>

> Correct, cable is a shared medium that is not even close to symmetric 
> (due to the technology design as content delivery originally rather than 
> bidirectional),  and additionally is oversold absurdly by the cable 
> networks in many areas. Its not an insurmountable problem, its a problem 
> the networks are trying to postpone a solution for while attempting to 
> maximize short term profit.  To top it off they are increasingly pushing 
> more digital content and hd content which further stresses the problem; 
> which is again because of a content delivery design paradigm which is 
> *probably a bad idea* but still the current focus of future cable networks.
> 
> Even so, torrents are still effective for users on those networks when 
> they are throttled to a low, but constant, and reasonable bandwidth.  
> Those bits moving do help the overall torrent network health and help 
> deliver content to others... people just need to keep them moving 
> slowly!  My desktop system, on a fairly badly clogged up cable network, 
> has seeded over 6 Gb of the F9 Preview Live disks already... at no more 
> than 20kbps at night and limited to 10kbps during the day.  When people 
> download in bursts and upload in slow and consistent rates the whole 
> situation is much easier handled by the networks.. and ultimately the 
> people downloading still get high bandwidth from the torrent.
> 
> Its sad that over 3000 downloads of the i686 Preview Live disk have 
> occurred through the fedora torrent but only 78 seeds are still active.  
> If even another 200 users were letting their systems seed at 1kbps it 
> would be so beneficial to everyone.

My IAP would prefer its ADSL2+ users pull it at 1.5 Mbytes/sec and 
better off its sponsored mirror. Can the torrent beat that?

It's common here for IAPs to have a local (maybe shared) mirror of 
popular stuff. Mine offers Fedora, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, opensuse, 
some BSDs. And gentoo. It might not be an official mirror, so it's worth 
checking with your IAP.

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John

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