From: | "James H. Cloos Jr." <cloos@×××××××.com> | ||
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To: | Caleb Shay <caleb@××××××××.com> | ||
Cc: | Gentoo-Dev <gentoo-dev@g.o> | ||
Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] torrent support in portage | ||
Date: | Tue, 15 Apr 2003 00:42:57 | ||
Message-Id: | m3vfxgfv5x.fsf@lugabout.jhcloos.org | ||
In Reply to: | [gentoo-dev] torrent support in portage by Caleb Shay |
1 | Note that bittorrent does not work very well for dialup users. The |
2 | overhead ends up being twice as large or more than the payload. It |
3 | also ends up blocking most other traffic. |
4 | |
5 | It generally helps for those with more bandwidth, of course, but |
6 | something that does not open a couple of hundred sockets works |
7 | better over straws. |
8 | |
9 | It will work well as a supplement to the staus quo, |
10 | but not so well as a replacement. |
11 | |
12 | -JimC |
13 | |
14 | |
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Subject | Author |
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Re: [gentoo-dev] torrent support in portage | Caleb Shay <caleb@××××××××.com> |
Re: [gentoo-dev] torrent support in portage | Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <ragnar@×××××××.com> |