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Noted. I don't have dial-up, so I wasn't aware of this. However, since |
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(in my little pipe-dream), it would be a FEATURE option, if you aren't |
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on dial-up, don't enable it. It would still have a good side-effect for |
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dial-up users. If all of use with fat pipes are downloading from each |
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other, we aren't sucking up all the mirror's bandwidth, and dial-up |
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people can actually get through via the standard SRC_URI. |
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Caleb |
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On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 20:42, James H. Cloos Jr. wrote: |
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> Note that bittorrent does not work very well for dialup users. The |
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> overhead ends up being twice as large or more than the payload. It |
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> also ends up blocking most other traffic. |
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> It generally helps for those with more bandwidth, of course, but |
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> something that does not open a couple of hundred sockets works |
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> better over straws. |
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> It will work well as a supplement to the staus quo, |
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> but not so well as a replacement. |
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> -JimC |
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